FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Former Tropical Storm Kirk weakened to a tropical wave Monday but has maintained a 50 percent chance of reforming over the next two days.
Kirk pushed westward in the eastern Atlantic as a tropical storm before weakening to a tropical depression on Sunday night. By Monday morning, it had lost its closed circulation.
That's the doughnut-like circular structure punctuated by an eye at a storm's core, which is necessary for a storm to be classified as a tropical depression, storm or hurricane.
"Redevelopment of this system is possible over the next few days until it encounters highly unfavorable upper-level winds while it approaches the Caribbean Sea," according to the National Hurricane Center's final advisory on Kirk, issued Monday afternoon.
Forecasters will be watching to see if Kirk's remnants regenerate.
Meanwhile, way out in the Central Atlantic where it's no threat to land, Subtropical Storm Leslie is spinning south at 7 mph and blowing winds of 40 mph, according to the center's Monday afternoon update.
Leslie looks like it's on track to do a loop-the-loop as it rotates toward the northwest with predictions that it will turn southeast.
Little change is forecast for the storm's intensity through Tuesday, but it looks likely to strengthen with winds kicking up to 65 mph within 48 hours, forecasters said Monday evening.
The other system being monitored is Disturbance 2, a broad area of low pressure about 450 miles out from Cape Hatteras, N.C.
Forecasters gave it a 50 percent chance of forming into a tropical cyclone in the next two days, according to the hurricane center's update at 2 p.m. EDT Monday.
No more advisories are scheduled for the system unless it ramps up.
Conditions for development look pretty good for the next day or so but will likely deteriorate by the time the disturbance nears the southeastern U.S. coast.
"By Tuesday night, upper-level winds are expected to increase, limiting the chances for additional development," forecasters said.
The Atlantic hurricane season ends officially Nov. 30.
