The Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially begin for another month, but a tropical disturbance off Florida is threatening to get things kicked off early this year.
The storm system is over the northwestern Bahamas, bringing showers and thunderstorms to the islands, and is expected to move northwest toward Florida over the next couple of days.
The disturbance forced the National Hurricane Center to put out aspecial tropical weather outlook Wednesday morning since the forecasting center doesn’t begin producing daily tropical outlooks for the Atlantic until the official start of the hurricane season on June 1.
“Some slow development is possible as the disturbance turns northeastward and moves over the western Atlantic,” the center said in the outlook, adding that even if the system doesn’t become…