We just saw the peak of hurricane season — what does the Atlantic look like now?
9/13/2022: Forecasters are watching two systems in the Atlantic and one could turn turn into a tropical depression in the next few days as it nears Caribbean Sea.
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The tropical activity in the Atlantic on Tuesday is much calmer than last week, when forecasters were monitoring Hurricane Earl and several other systems. Earl is long gone, but forecasters are watching two disturbances.
One of the disturbances is between the west coast of Africa and the Windward Islands and is continuing to produce showers and thunderstorms, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 2 a.m. advisory Tuesday.
Some development of this system is possible over the next several days, the hurricane center said, while it moves west to west-northwest, approaching the Windward Islands by the end of the week.
The hurricane center is giving it a 20% chance of formation through the next 48 hours and a 30% through the next five days.
Forecasters are also watching a disturbance about a hundred miles southeast of the easternmost Cabo Verde Islands that is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
“Environmental conditions appear only marginally favorable, and any development of this system should be slow to occur while it moves westward or west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic through the end of the week,” the hurricane center said.
Forecasters say the system has no chance of formation in the next 48 hours and a 20% chance of formation through the next five days.
Saturday was the “climatological peak” of the Atlantic hurricane season, when “conditions are most optimal for tropical storms and hurricanes over the largest area,” according to the Weather Channel. The hurricane center says most activity in the Atlantic comes between mid-August and mid-October.
The next storm name on the list is Fiona.
Miami Herald staff writer Omar Rodríguez Ortiz contributed to this report.
This story was originally published September 12, 2022 at 6:37 AM.
