If it becomes a hurricane by Sunday afternoon, it would be the farthest east on record a hurricane has formed in the tropical Atlantic, breaking a record set in 1933, said Phil Klotzbach, a senior research scientist at Colorado State University, and lead author of its seasonal hurricane outlook.
While tropical cyclone activity before August 1 has little correlation with the overall activity in a season, early season activity east of the Lesser Antilles is generally associated with very busy seasons, Klotzbach posted on X.