Florence is forecast to restrengthen into a hurricane and push close to Bermuda and the United States East Coast next week. Florence is expected to have an indirect impact and may evolve into a serious direct threat. Florence is a relatively small tropical system, and small tropical systems are very vulnerable to both ideal and poor environmental conditions.
After forming near the Cabo Verde Islands last weekend, Florence became the first Category 4 hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic season as it entered a zone of low wind shear and sufficiently warm waters earlier this week. Wind shear is the increase in wind speed and change in wind direction with either increasing altitude or over a horizontal distance. Low wind shear can prevent a tropical storm from forming and cause a well-developed hurricane to weaken. READ MORE
