Tropical Depression Fay

Tropical Depression Fay is packing 30-kt (35-mph) winds, moving WSW at 8 kt (9 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

At 900 PM GMT (2100 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Fay was located near latitude 30.8 North, longitude 35.3 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the west-southwest near 9 mph (15 km/h). A gradual turn toward the west is expected during the next few days. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h) with higher gusts. The remnant low is expected to gradually weaken during the next few days. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1011 mb (29.86 inches).— National Hurricane Center · public advisory 14

This is the Atlantic · 26°N–34°N, 50°W–33°W. Fay’s forecast track is the dotted spine — the labelled dots mark its position each day. Every cell is shaded by how many hours it spends inside Fay’s gale-force (≥34 kt · 39 mph) wind across the whole forecast, the damaging core counted double.

Read it two ways at once. Colour is the total — the hours of gale-force wind a place piles up. A slow storm writes its danger in duration, not in any single gust, so the longer the wind sits over a place, the deeper its colour. Opacity is confidence — solid where the official probability of that wind is high, faint where it is only a chance. So a deep, solid cell is a place the wind will work for a long time and likely will; a pale, faint one is a brief, uncertain brush at the edge of the cone.

The storm continues to weaken and is expected to become a remnant low far from any land areas, matching the official forecast of little to no impacts. A fresh disturbance emerging off Africa is also drawing attention as it may open the basin to additional activity. These updates reinforce the outlook on the fading system while flagging the new development at an early stage.

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