First tropical storm of 2024 could arrive in the next week
We are tracking a pretty active season, a pretty impressive season coming up, but it's been a slow start. Even though we've had those warm waters out in the Atlantic. Not all of the ingredients are necessarily coming together now though. The the tropics are starting to heat up now. The latest start to the hurricane season since 2014. This is for this year. Arthur was formed on July 1 of 2014. So it's been a decade since we've seen such a late start to the tropical season, especially when it comes to our named storms. Do you want to take us out though to the Atlantic basin right now, even parts of the Pacific basin where we are tracking some disturbances, some features? This one we have a high development chance on. It's turning right off of the coast of Nicaragua. It's going to be shifting north and West over these next few days, moving into the Bay of Campeche. And we're tracking that start to get its act together and form some type of tropical system. Now we are forecasting this storm to kind of get wrapped up or this storm to kind of get wrapped up with this one. So we're kind of seeing multiple waves of energy here. That's what happens during this time of year. We call that the Central American Gyra. That's where we are tracking again that area of low pressure that we need and the spark that we need for some rotation out in the tropics. Now we are looking at a low risk here off of the southeast coast up through the Mid-Atlantic, low chance for development. It's getting shared out from the West. We aren't too concerned about that problem there though it is going to be bringing some rain to areas like Bermuda and even through Atlantic Canada.