Where is Tropical Storm Dexter going and what's coming next?

Dexter is headed out into the Atlantic, away from the U.S., but another storm could be approaching the Southeast by this weekend.

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00:00Tropical storm Dexter has formed. It's on the map here and Dexter is going to continue to pass

00:06well to the north of Bermuda. Here's Bermuda right now and again Dexter is kind of a low to

00:12mid-range tropical storm right now moving to the northeast at 15 miles per hour. Initially it was

00:17associated with and attached to a front. Now it's kind of taken a shape of its own and it's no longer

00:22really embedded within a true front. So it is a freestanding tropical system and it will remain

00:27a tropical storm for the next day or so. By 48 hours from now we expect this to begin to become a

00:34little more ragged looking over the north Atlantic with a little extra wind shear and colder water up

00:38that way. So Dexter is not going to be much of a factor aside from helping to produce some extra

00:43rip currents up and down the east coast. So beware swimmers or if you're responsible for some swimmers

00:48maybe if you're a parent you're on vacation and you have young ones out there who will be swimming

00:52make sure you're keeping a close eye on them. So here we have Bermuda there's Dexter but to the north

00:58this tropical feature actually has a little bit more longevity in getting our attention because

01:03it's going to be drifting west and northwest passing near or over the Bahamas and this is going to get

01:09close to the Georgia Florida and South Carolina coast by Friday Saturday and Sunday this coming

01:14weekend. And when we look at wind shear the the amount of wind in the path of this there's some

01:20relatively low wind shear where it's currently located but there will be moderate to occasionally

01:25strong shear in its path. By the time we get to Wednesday morning you'll notice the Bahamas

01:29an area of relatively low wind shear so we need to keep an eye out for that system. There's potential

01:34for this between Friday and Sunday to become perhaps a tropical depression. There's another

01:38disturbance that's going to follow that one. A little bubble high pressure system will follow that

01:42and then it'll direct the next one farther south into next week for the Gulf. We're also keeping an eye

01:48out for this pretty robust tropical wave pooling west of Africa which could organize as well.