NHC ends Gonzalo advisories as post-tropical; Fay stays a weak depression far from Florida

The National Hurricane Center's Post-Tropical Cyclone Gonzalo Advisory Number 8, issued at 8:00 PM Cabo Verde Time Saturday, September 26, 2026, states that Gonzalo is no longer a tropical cyclone and that this is the final public advisory. At 2100 UTC the center was near 19.3°N, 23.3°W — about 180 miles (290 km) north of Sal in Cabo Verde — with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph, motion north-northwest near 7 mph, and an estimated minimum central pressure of 1005 mb. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. NHC expects additional weakening and dissipation over the eastern subtropical Atlantic by early to mid next week. Swells from Gonzalo were expected to affect portions of the Cabo Verde Islands Saturday evening before diminishing Sunday, with life-threatening surf and rip current conditions possible there.

Separately, Tropical Depression Fay Advisory Number 27 at 9:00 PM GMT Saturday places Fay near 29.8°N, 43.9°W — about 1,120 miles (1,800 km) west-southwest of the Azores — with maximum sustained winds near 35 mph, a slow southward motion near 2 mph, and an estimated minimum central pressure of 1009 mb. There are no coastal watches or warnings, and NHC lists no land hazards for Fay. Little change in strength is forecast over the next several days as the depression continues generally southward with a gradual increase in forward speed.

Earlier Saturday afternoon, NHC's 2:00 PM EDT Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook was still issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Gonzalo and Tropical Depression Fay and also noted a surface trough several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda with disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Formation chances for that trough were listed as low — 10 percent through 48 hours and 20 percent through 7 days — as the system moves northward this weekend then turns eastward early to mid next week. Neither Gonzalo nor Fay is a Florida or U.S. East Coast land threat based on these products.

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Sources: NHC Post-Tropical Cyclone Gonzalo Advisory 8, NHC Tropical Depression Fay Advisory 27, NHC Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook (2:00 PM EDT Sat), NHC home.