The tropical storm Gabrielle is formed, ending the strange drought of the Atlantic. It could become a hurricane

The tropical storm Gabrielle was formed in the central Atlantic Ocean, ending an unusual section of almost three weeks without storm during the top of the hurricanes season.

Gabrielle trained on Wednesday morning at just over 1,000 miles from the Nordic Nordic Caribbean islands, with sustained winds of 45 mi / h.

The National Hurricane Center plans that Gabrielle becomes a hurricane by Saturday while he turns north–Northwest. Although the water is very hot for strengthening, the storm faces obstacles in the atmosphere in the coming days, so it is always uncertain how strong it could become.

The United States should not see the direct impacts of this system, but it could run surfing on the east coast next week.

Gabrielle is the first tropical storm of the Atlantic since Fernand collapsed on August 28.

For the second time that since 1950, the Atlantic has become without a storm from August 29 to September 16, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, hurricane expert and researcher at Colorado State University. The last time it happened was in a calm period after the devastating strike from Hurricane Andrew in the United States in 1992.

The high pressure north of this system will serve as a steering wheel in the coming days, with its hourly movement sending the storm on a West North West path which will prevail in the north of the Oriental Caribbean islands this weekend. The high surfing and dangerous rip currents will be the main impacts of these islands, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

This high pressure will then take sufficient enough to transform the system further north into a central Atlantic. Where this tour will perform will determine how close it is to the rest of the Bermuda next week.

Another area of ​​showers and storms emerges from Africa just behind the tropical depression seven and could slowly transform into another tropical system while it follows the West across the east and the central Atlantic in the coming days, according to the National Hurricane Center. This system is not an imminent threat to land for at least next week, whether it becomes a tropical depression or storm.

The seventh tropical storm of the season is generally formed on September 3, so this storm is about two weeks late.

Most tropical Atlantic activities – depressions, storms and hurricanes – occur from mid -August to mid -October. But most of September is generally very busy, because it is when several atmospheric and oceanic conditions combine to make life easier for tropical systems.

This September had a lot of warm water to serve as jet fuel for tropical problems. Sea surface temperatures across the basin are currently warmer than normal and have been for most of the summer.

But from the six tropical storms of the season until August, only one has become a hurricane: Erin. Erin was a frightening overview in a new world order of the strength of the Atlantic storms becoming as the planet warms up.

The Atlantic had difficulty producing storms this year due to factors superior to the ocean.

The tropical Atlantic has been wrapped in dry and stable air. This factor can help limit all tropical budding systems by producing stormy time.

The winds of storm killers at different levels of the atmosphere known as the wind shear were also stronger than usual for this period of the year in the Western and central parts of the Atlantic.

These two atmospheric factors were an obstacle to the formation of tropical systems from stormy time areas which move away from the African coast and in the Atlantic Open at this time of the year.

The breeding ground for storms shrinks west of Africa before October. The Gulf, the Caribbean and the Western Atlantic are typical hottie of training at the end of the season, and as these regions are closer to the earth, all the storms that form have a greater chance of causing dangerous impacts.