Even as Tropical Storm Fay continues to bedevil Florida, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are watching the next two disturbances lined up across the tropical Atlantic for signs of development.

Neither one is very well organized at the moment, but forecasters say conditions will slowly become more favorable for them as they drift across the ocean toward the Antilles.

The first in line is centered about 400 miles east of the Windward Islands. It's headed west northwest at 15 mph. The second is midway between Africa and the West Indies, east northeast of the first storm. This one is also drifting west northwest at about 15 mph.

This is the time of year when the eastern tropical Atlantic begins to crank out these tropical waves and send them off across the Atlantic like pies down the conveyor belt. Some fall apart, but others get their acts together in a big way. Those are the storms that can track toward the East Coast, and landfall along the Florida or Carolina shore. That's when we start to pay close attention.

It was just that type of tropical storm that bashed the coast from Virginia to New Jersey in 1933. Ocean City took a terrible hit, but the Great Hurricane of 1933 (or the Chesapeake and Potomac Hurricane, as some called it) cut a new inlet across the barrier island at Ocean City and gave the resort direct access to the sea. That proved to be an economic boon to the town. The cleansing tidal flow into the Sinepuxent Bay also fixed the terrible pollution that had plagued the bay side.

You can read more about the 1933 storm, and see a gallery of photos from The Sun's archives, on our Website today, if you haven't already. Just click here.

Here's the latest advisory on Fay. Here's the storm track. and here's the view from space.