Over the next 12 hours, westerly shear over Invest #98L begins to relax, which gives this disturbance a window of opportunity for coupling deep convection with the surface circulation.

There are no recorded tropical storm formations before August north of 37ºN and west of 70ºW pic.twitter.com/SRYtjwq9pw

— Sam Lillo (@splillo) July 9, 2020