Credit: Photo via Twitter/NWS

Credit: Photo via Twitter/NWS

You can’t blame weather officials for trying to convey the seriousness of hurricane season, but the early arrival of the tropical system that became Subtropical storm Andrea was definitely a drag.

Good news for Florida, however, is that the National Weather Service (NWS) has officially said that she won’t be a problem since most of the the rain is concentrated in the southwest part of the storm.

“Sub-tropical storm Andrea is a 40 mph storm between the Bahamas and Bermuda but should dissipate by Midweek,” the NWS wrote on Twitter.

Andrea is expected to turn northeast (that’s away from Florida, folks) and then run into a cold front that’ll put her to bed once and for all.

Hurricane season doesn’t officially start until June 1, but we’re now taking bets on when talk of 2019’s second named storm, Barry, will get fired up.

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This article appears in May 16-23, 2019.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...