Hurricanes

A broad area of low pressure in the Atlantic still has the eye of the National Hurricane Center. This will be a very slowly developing system but will be inching closer to Florida and The Bahamas.

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The National Hurricane Center continues to watch a poorly defined tropical disturbance in the central Atlantic. There is a chance it becomes a tropical depression later in the week but lots of different ideas of where it would go.

Disturbed weather over the central tropical Atlantic is expected to join with a tropical wave and could form into a tropical depression this week. Environmental conditions will encourage development over the northern Leeward Islands, Greater Antilles, or southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

An area of disturbed weather over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean is being monitored by the National Hurricane Center. Chances are still low for tropical development but it is the first sign of the Atlantic Basin starting to become more active for August.

A disturbance over the central Atlantic is forecast to move near the Lesser Antilles by the early to middle part of next week. There's a LOW 20% chance for development into a tropical system next week. Saharan dust is starting to get a bit less thick and that could mean more tropical systems getting going in August. Tropical Storm Bud has fallen apart in the eastern Pacific and is now a post-tropical remnant low. Area of low pressure a few hundred miles south of southern Mexico has a 30% chance to develop into a tropical system next week as it moves WNW.

Tropical Storm "Bud" is a 60 mph system in the eastern Pacific moving west at 14 mph. It is not expected to be a threat to land and should fall apart this weekend. All is still quiet across the Atlantic, Caribbean & Gulf for now with no tropical activity expected for the rest of July. But things could get busy again in August as Saharan dust starts to decrease.

The good news is that tropical systems are not expected to develop in the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean or Atlantic Ocean through the rest of July. Saharan dust has brought in drier air but is forecast to become less widespread in August. That means hurricane season could get really active as water temperatures remain very warm. In the Eastern Pacific, area of low pressure SW of Mexico now has a medium 50% chance tropical development. Check FOX Local for the latest on the tropics and weather where you live!

Saharan dust is keeping tropical activity under control for now with no tropical systems expected expected over the next 7 days for the Atlantic, Caribbean & Gulf of Mexico. Two systems are being monitored in the eastern Pacific. One area of low pressure is a few hundred miles SSW of Manzanillo, Mexico with a 30% chance of development. The other disturbance is farther out in the eastern Pacific and has a very LOW 10-20% chance for development over the next 2-7 days.

Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico & Caribbean remain quiet for now and should stay quiet through the end of July with thick Saharan dust hindering tropical development across the Atlantic basin. A few systems in the East Pacific have a low shot for development over the next 2-7 days. But these systems, if they development wolf have no impact to the US and are moving away from Central America and Mexico.

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