Tropical Storm Josephine forms in mid-Atlantic; earliest 10th storm of season on record
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tropical Storm Josephine, which formed in the mid-Atlantic Thursday morning, is headed on a path toward the Caribbean islands, but National Hurricane Center forecasters said it is currently no threat to the U.S.
“We have it curving off the Atlantic coastline,” said Dennis Feltgen, with the National Hurricane Center. “We don’t see this, right now, as any threat to the state of Florida or the United States.”
Josephine is also a record-breaker because it’s the earliest 10th tropical storm on record.
“Josephine is the earliest 10th tropical storm on record in the Atlantic, with the next earliest 10th storm being Tropical Storm Jose on August 22, 2005,” the hurricane center noted in a forecast discussion posted at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday.
