What a busy day for the National Hurricane Center. Today, not only has Hurricane Earl increased in strength by 2 categories, but the 6th tropical storm of the season has also formed. Currently we have 3 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic with Danielle, Earl, and now Tropical Storm Fiona.

Tropical Storm Fiona has formed about 600 miles to the east of Earl. It has winds of 40 miles per hour, and is moving west at a rapid speed of 24 miles per hour. The longer term path of Fiona will depend a lot on what Hurricane Earl does, however the National Hurricane Center has it well East of the Bahamas, moving northwest on Saturday afternoon. From there, it seems to possibly stall or even change directions. Right now it is much too early to guess where it will be 6 or 7 days down the road.

Hurricane Earl now is a category 4 storm with winds up to 135 miles per hour. The NHC track for Earl remains the same, with it staying off the coast of the US moving up and possibly making landfall in Nova Scotia.

Elsewhere in the tropics there is still yet another rather well organized wave behind Fiona, which too needs to be watched.