Florida has been keeping an eye on a tropical wave moving steadily toward the coast. Now, there’s another one.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a disturbance moving west at about 15 mph from the Cabo Verde Islands, near Africa. There’s a 50 percent chance it could form into a tropical depression by early next week when it’s several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
There are two tropical waves moving along the Atlantic Ocean. One of them is expected to batter Florida with heavy rain in the next few days. The other, colored orange, has a 50 percent chance of forming into a tropical depression by early next week when its several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles, according to the National Hurricane Center. National Hurricane Center
Forecasters are also tracking the tropical wave that has been battering Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands with “disorganized showers and thunderstorms.” Moving at about 10 mph, the wave will swamp the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and Florida with heavy rainfall. It’s also bringing more sogginess to South Florida starting Wednesday night into the weekend.
Once the wave, colored yellow on the map, moves near Florida and the northwestern Bahamas over the weekend “conditions could become marginally conducive” for it to turn into a significant weather system, according to the forecast, but the chances are a low 10 percent.
As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, the wave’s trajectory shows it’ll be off Florida’s east coast and will eventually turn northeastward to the western Atlantic Ocean.
This story was originally published July 31, 2019 at 6:56 AM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
