Tropical Depression Fay

Tropical Depression Fay is packing 30-kt (35-mph) winds, moving S at 3 kt (3 mph). Expected to stay over open water.

At 900 AM GMT (0900 UTC), the center of Tropical Depression Fay was located near latitude 29.2 North, longitude 43.9 West. The depression is moving toward the south near 3 mph (6 km/h). A gradual turn to the southwest and then west is expected over the next couple of days, along with an increase in forward speed. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h) with higher gusts. Little change in strength is forecast over the next several days. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1010 mb (29.83 inches).— National Hurricane Center · public advisory 29

Fay tracks over open water — no coast is in the outlook. Along its path, our forecast reads:

This is the Atlantic · 20°N–31°N, 52°W–41°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.

Forecasters have confirmed that Fay is a tropical depression in the central Atlantic, drifting slowly southward with limited winds and no signs of strengthening into a hurricane. Multiple meteorologists note that the system is far from any coast and is expected to weaken further without affecting land areas or the Gulf. This assessment matches the official forecast showing continued decline rather than development.

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