Hurricane season now accelerates – that knowing
The Atlantic Hurricane season has woken up when we are in what is historically the most active period of the year. From the Western and central Atlantic to Africa, there are several areas to monitor tropical development at the moment.
Here’s what we know.
Monitoring now: Western, Central Atlantic Systems
– System off the east coast: Low low pressure is expected to go northeast of the east coast in the coming days. If it grows enough thunderstorms, it could become a tropical or subtropical depression or storm this weekend or at the beginning of next week. It is not a threat to land, but could produce current surfing and heartbreaking currents along a large part of the east coast throughout this weekend, especially from southeast of New England to North Carolina.
– Central Atlantic System: Further east, a lower pressure zone called tropical wave is found in the central Atlantic Ocean, where it produces disorganized showers and thunderstorms. It could become a depression or a storm at the beginning of next week while it curls up to the northwest. This system is not a threat to the continent in the United States, but according to the sharpness of her loop, she could spend near Bermuda next week.
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Tropical development potential
(The possible areas of tropical development according to the latest prospects of the National Hurricane Center are presented by polygons, coded by color by the risk of development over the next seven days. A “X” indicates the location of a current disturbance. All active storms are shown by a symbol of tropical storm and its corresponding forecasting path.).
In the front: all eyes on a new system emerging from Africa
– The parade of disturbances known as tropical waves will continue off the African coast, as it always does during the hurricanes season.
– One of these tropical waves should leave the African coast on Saturday.
– With a lukewarm water environment, shear with a low wind content and a gradual increase in humidity, this next tropical wave could develop at the start of next week between Africa and the smallest West Indies.
-This next tropical system could possibly represent a threat somewhere in the eastern Caribbean from next Friday or the weekend of August 16 to 17, and perhaps part of the American continent during the following week.
– But it is far too early to know where a location of the Caribbean or the United States can possibly be affected, if necessary. It is now time to make sure that your hurricane plan is ready to leave, before a storm threatens.
– The next tropical storms in the Atlantic basin will be called Erin, then Fernand.
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The training areas of the privileged storms of August.
(Data: National Hurricane Center)
Jonathan Erdman has been a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has covered national and international weather conditions since 1996. The extreme and bizarre time is his favorite subjects. Tidy up Bluesky,, X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.
