Good reason why its hard to get a LF tropical system up this way, Usually, One, They're transitioning to extra tropical because of colder waters (which may not be the case this year) and two, They usually are hauling azz as the climb latitude as the get above 40N after considerable weakening.
That's the case, The seal population has exploded up here hence the attraction, You know how that goes, The herring show up, The pogies chase the herring, The seals chase the pogies, The sharks chase the seals, etc, etc.