NORTH CAROLINA -- The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season is now under two weeks away. However, that does not mean a tropical system can't form before the official start date of June 1.

  • Subtropical storm Andrea forms south of Bermuda.
  • As of the Monday evening update, the storm track keeps the system away from the United States.
  • A hurricane hunter aircraft determind the system was a subtropical cyclone Monday afternoon.

The disturbance that the National Hurricane Center has been monitoring the past three days has now been classified as a subtropical storm. Andrea is several hundred miles south of Bermuda moving northward.

The system is actually expected to weaken in the next few days as it approaches Bermuda. 

Computer models keep the storm system away from North Carolina and the United States in the coming days. The remnants of the storm are expected to move east into the Atlantic later this week.

This is the fifth time in the last five years that a tropical or subtropical storm system has formed before the official start of the Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season.

The season runs from June 1 until the end of November.