We still have a month left of the hurricane season, however cyclone formation markedly slows after cold fronts consistently start moving across Florida like this and the last one did.  It looks like tropical storm Philippe could be the last named tropical system of Hurricane Season 2017.  This mutant storm is crossing over Cuba tonight.  It’s expected to travel up the east coast of Florida over the open waters of the Atlantic. The storm is a mutant because it was found to have three vorticity centers making up the storm.  It’s being characterized as an elongated center.  The 11pm NOAA discussion pointed out that one convection center was found over the Bahamas and the other over the southeastern gulf.  The intensity at that time was 35knots, and isn’t expected to strengthen beyond a tropical storm. The storm is primarily producing increased moisture in the atmosphere, but mild increases in wind strength could be seen across southern Florida. The cold front moving across the state will interact with Philippe overnight in a way that will begin to drive the moisture and convection centers of the storm back out into the Atlantic and up the eastern seaboard.