Forecasters monitoring space of curiosity close to Bermuda

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Weather forecasters are today keeping a close watch on a non-tropical low pressure system forecast to develop a few miles northeast of Bermuda by late Thursday or early Friday.

The system, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, has a low chance of development at this stage and has been pegged at a 30% likelihood of formation through the next five days.

“The low [pressure system] is then expected to move southwestward over warmer waters on Friday and possibly acquire subtropical characteristics before the system lifts out toward the north and northeast on Saturday and Sunday,” the NHC said in its weather advisory Wednesday morning.

This is the first area of interest for forecasters in the Atlantic basin as the region prepares for the official start of hurricane season on 1 June.

Forecasters suggest that the low pressure system will interact with a cold front in the coming days which could push it further out to sea where it will remain.

However, if the system develops…

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