Weather forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are watching two disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean that could grow into tropical systems this week.
The closer disturbance, labeled AL95, is sitting a few hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda. In its Monday morning update, the weather service said the low-pressure area “continues to show signs of organization.”
Forecasters stated that the system “could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm during the next couple of days.” It is moving to the north and north-northeast and is expected to stay well out to sea, away from Bermuda. Meteorologists give it a 50 percent chance of forming over the next two to seven days.
Further east, forecasters are watching a second tropical wave that just moved off the coast of West Africa. This system is producing scattered showers and storms while traveling west at 15 to 20 mph across the ocean.
Conditions around the African wave are only “marginally conducive” right now, giving it a low 20 percent chance of development over the next 48 hours.
However, forecasters expect conditions to improve later in the week, predicting that “a tropical depression could form by the middle to latter portions of the week.” The system holds a 60 percent chance of formation over the next seven days.
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