Weather pattern keeping TD 2 crawling

The high-pressure system centered over the central United States will continue to steer the storm, which will get the name Bertha if it intensifies to tropical storm status, primarily westward this week. Another area of high pressure over the western Atlantic is preventing the tropical system from being pulled northward by the trough currently digging across the eastern United States. As these two high-pressure systems sandwich the tropical depression, the storm has very little steering flow. Over the weekend, TD 2 became nearly stationary, and as of Monday morning, it was moving northwest at only about 3 mph (6 km/h). This slow movement is expected to continue through at least late Tuesday afternoon. Once TD 2 begins to accelerate, we expect it to make a more pronounced westward turn.