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These systems that pop up close to land are called "home brew" style systems, and can come up relatively quickly and surprise folks. This morning the system wasn't even really worth mentioning, but it changed by the afternoon.

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Yes, I remember a couple of years ago we had one of these small "irrelevant" systems which turned info a tropical storm (or was it a Cat1?) literally overnight and everybody was baffled as to where the hell it had come from.

So far, and even though 98L is right off our coast, we don't feel much here, in New Smyrna Beach. West Palm Beach seems to be even closer to the system than we are.

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That was likely Humberto from 2007, it spun up from a disturbance to category one in nearly record time. Conditions aren't set up for something like that with the system off Florida, (Too much northwesterly shear), but it can be possible given the right conditions.

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