TROPICAL UPDATE OCT 3, 2018... 1019 AM EDT

Leslie now a hurricane over the North Central Atlantic.  Leslie continues to be only a threat to shipping, but it is producing swells along the Bermuda coast.

Still monitoring a disturbance in the South Caribbean associated with a broad area of low pressure.

This disorganized area of showers a storms is spreading west and east and could affect as far as Haiti and Puerto Rico as it drifts slowly northward toward the Northwest Caribbean.

As this system drifts north- northwest, it could become better organized and a depression or tropical storm could form during the weekend.

At this time models continue to show some development but are not as aggressive as past model run, where some showed a hurricane in the Caribbean and Eastern Gulf.

High pressure in the Atlantic should keep this system moving toward the Northwest or North-Northwest.

Interest in Cuba, the Yucatan, South Florida, New Orleans to the Florida Pan Handle, should closely monitor the progress of this system...RTW