Tropical Depression Eight Moving Away from North Carolina: Forecast to Lose Tropical Characteristics on Thursday

August 31,2016
Tropical Depression Eight continues to move away from North Carolina, and may strengthen into a tropical storm on Thursday.
The depression was centered about 320 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as of Wednesday evening. The system is now accelerating to the northeast.
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Current Storm Information

However, wind shear is affecting the depression, and may keep it from attaining tropical storm intensity. There remains a brief window for intensification on Thursday, but it is more likely to be absorbed or reduced to shower activity by an east coast trough.
Regardless, as the forecast path from the National Hurricane Center shows, this system will whisked away from the East Coast, with no other land mass as a threat.
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Projected Path

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