Within a day of peaking, the hurricane turned southwestward and weakened.
Located in an area of little wind shear, it headed southwestward, developing spiral-band outflow and becoming a tropical storm on the 12th.
Initially subtropical, it slowly acquired tropical characteristics while tracked southeast and then southwestward.
With a narrow ridge of high pressure to its north, the depression moved west-southwestward.
The storm then turned sharply west-southwestward while moving around the eastern side of a mid-level circulation.
With a ridge to the north, the storm tracked generally westward and later southwestward.
The next day the cyclone developed an eye as it turned west-southwestward.
After becoming a tropical depression, the system tracked slowly southwestward and eventually curved northwestward.
