Published on: August 14, 2011 at 2:18 PM

Tropical Storm Gert is on the board now.

TD7 was upgraded just before 1 p.m. today.

It is embedded is dry air, so additional strengthening will be limited.

Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the island of Bermuda. The center of Gert will pass about 65 miles east/southeast of the island early tomorrow morning. Tropical storm force winds just stay east of the island, but tropical storm warnings have been issue just in case. They will definitely get heavy rains and gusty winds.

The disturbance behind Gert will bring additional heavy rains to Bermuda in a couple of days.

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