Meteorologists are keeping a close watch on two separate weather systems across the Atlantic Ocean, with one off the coast of Africa showing strong signs of organizing into a tropical depression within the next day or two.
The most active system, known as AL96, is centered a few hundred miles south-southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands.
While it is currently producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms, forecasters say “environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development” as it travels westward to west-northwestward across the tropical Atlantic.
Forecasters put the odds of AL96 forming into a depression at 70 percent over both the next 48 hours and the coming seven days. However, those favorable conditions are expected to deteriorate as the weekend approaches.
Meanwhile, a second disturbance called AL95 is spinning a few hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda, moving north to north-northeast at 15 to 20 mph. The low-pressure area remains stretched out and disorganized.
According to meteorologists, the Bermuda system “could still become a short-lived tropical depression or storm later today” before encountering hostile atmospheric conditions tonight and Wednesday that will likely shut down its chances of strengthening. AL95 holds a 40 percent chance of formation over the next 48 hours and seven days.
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