(AccuWeather) – While Dorian will remain the most potent feature on the tropical weather maps into late week, AccuWeather forecasters are monitoring other areas in the Atlantic basin in addition to Tropical Storm Gabrielle. The Atlantic has become a three-ring circus of tropical activity with Dorian being the main focus and other areas brewing to the right over the central and eastern part of the main ocean.
Tropical Depression Seven formed in the western Gulf of Mexico shortly before 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday. By 2 p.m. EDT, it had strengthened into Tropical Storm Fernand, the sixth named storm of the season. Fernand made landfall in northeastern Mexico as a tropical storm at approximately 11:35 a.m. CDT Wednesday. Fernand has since weakened to a tropical rainstorm and will rain itself out near the Rio Grande Valley and mountains to the west. READ MORE
