TAMPA, Fla. – A new area to watch for tropical development has been highlighted by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
For now, the odds of development are medium over the next week, but the FOX Forecast Center believes those odds could increase as we move closer to the final month of the Atlantic hurricane season.
A broad area of low pressure is expected to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea around the middle of this week. That would coincide with the return of the Central American Gyre, which had a hand in creating hurricanes Helene and Milton, and more recently, Tropical Storm Nadine.
“Some gradual development is possible toward the end of the week and over the weekend when the system begins to drift northward or northeastward over the southwestern and south-central Caribbean Sea,” the NHC wrote in its latest outlook.…