The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two disturbances in the Atlantic this week, with one system showing a strong likelihood of strengthening into a tropical depression in the coming days.
According to the NHC’s Tropical Weather Outlook, the first system is located in the central tropical Atlantic, tied to an area of low pressure about five hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Shower and thunderstorm activity around the system is currently limited, but forecasters expect conditions to grow more favourable for development over the next couple of days. A tropical depression is likely to form during the latter half of this week as the system tracks westward to west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic. The NHC gives it a low, thirty per cent chance of development within forty-eight hours, rising to a high seventy per cent chance over the next seven days.
The second system is a trough of low pressure located several hundred miles northeast of Bermuda, currently producing showers and thunderstorms in the central subtropical Atlantic. Some development is possible over the next day or so as the system moves eastward at roughly twenty miles per hour. However, forecasters expect it to move into cooler waters later this week, which would end its chances of formation by Thursday. The NHC gives this system a low, ten per cent chance of development both within forty-eight hours and over the next seven days.
The NHC says it will continue to monitor both systems as the Atlantic hurricane season progresses.
