Gonzalo has been upgraded to hurricane strength, but it is not expected to impact Florida.

According to the 11 p.m. advisory, Gonzalo has strengthened to 85 mph and was located about 40 miles NNW of Anguilla. The Category 1 hurricane is moving northwest at 12 mph late Monday.

On the forecast track, the center of Gonzalo will pass just northeast of the Virgin Islands overnight tonight and move into the open Atlantic north of Puerto Rico on Tuesday. A turn toward the north-northwest is forecast by late Wednesday.

A hurricane warning is in effect for the British Virgin Islands, St. Martin and Anguilla. A hurricane watch is in effect for St. Thomas and St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. A tropical storm warning is in effect for St. Maarten, St. Barthelemy, Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra and U.S. Virgin Islands.

But all major computer models showing the storm eventually turning away from Florida.

"There's a huge upper-level trough that's going to come off the east coast of the United States in a couple of days, and that's why the forecast shows it staying not only east of the U.S. and Florida, but even away from the Bahamas, too," Bay News 9 meteorologist Juli Marquez said.

Some of the Caribbean islands won't be so lucky. Gonzalo is expected produce up to 8 inches of rain across the Leeward Islands, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Vieques and Culebra and Puerto Rico.

That's in addition to "strong winds, rough surf and high waves across the eastern Caribbean," Marquez said.

Further north, Tropical Storm Fay, which had briefly strengthened into a hurricane, has dissipated as of 5 p.m.