eastern tropical atlantic, that s what we re looking at. it is strengthening, currently a tropical storm. while we were monitoring irene the past several days tropical storm jose formed and already died in the atlantic and fortunately did not impact anyone. we are monitoring our new storm system katia, which six years ago was named katrina. that is one storm we are all too familiar with. we hope katia doesn t turn out to be anything like that storm. 630 miles to the west southwest of the cape verde islands. it has a lot of convex. it s going to continue to strengthen, sustained winds at 45 miles per hour moving to the west northwest. pretty quickly for a storm at this latitude, 18 miles an hour. within the next few days it should become a hurricane. by friday, sat gory 2 storm, by the end of the weekend on sunday