TAMPA, Fla. - While Tropical Storm Elsa officially formed Thursday morning, it’s still too soon to determine how – if any – impacts could happen next week for Florida.
Elsa is the earliest fifth named storm on record for the Atlantic hurricane season.Elsa is currently more than 800 miles away from the Windward Islands.
Two reliable computer models show different outcomes for the tropical storm after it reaches the eastern Caribbean. The GFS model shows Elsa holding steady, but the European model shows the storm falling apart, explains FOX 13’s meteorologist Dave Osterberg."Out of respect for the updates in the GFS, I think that’s why the Hurricane Center has the track that they do now," he explained. "But so many different things have to.