Tropical Storm Arthur forms

Tropical Storm Arthur, the first named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, has formed in between Florida's east coast and the upper Bahamas. Arthur is currently moving northwest with maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, and could be a hurricane by Thursday.

There is a possibility for Arthur to make landfall in the Carolinas, but another track has it shifting in a northeast direction roughly parallel to the east coast of the United States, and up to the Atlantic provinces of Canada. This is a common path for some Atlantic tropical cyclones.

The Atlantic hurricane season officially started a month ago, but there was almost no activity in June, unlike last year when Tropical Storm Andrea formed on June 5, followed by Tropical Storm Barry on June 19. The eastern Pacific basin has already seen five names cyclones this season.

Tropical Storm Arthur before and after being named.

Arthur's first advisory after being upgraded from a depression.