Thursday, September 5, 2019

Not Just Dorian: 8 Other Tropical Systems We're Watching Around the Globe

Hurricane Dorian devastated the northwestern Bahamas and is now leaving its mark along the southeastern United States.But Dorian is far from the only game in town. There are eight other systems around the Northern Hemisphere that are either named storms or areas that may develop into named storms soon.
Here's a rundown of each of the systems in each basin. 

Atlantic Basin

-Gabrielle: Gabrielle will not be a threat to land, curling northwestward into the central Atlantic Ocean. It could become a hurricane by early next week.
There are three other areas that could become tropical depressions.
-Invest 94L is a tropical wave near the Cabo Verde Islands. It has a medium chance of development by early next week as it moves across the eastern Atlantic tropics. It's too soon to tell if this disturbance will pose any threat to land areas, assuming it develops at all.
-Invest 92L: An area of low pressure northeast of Bermuda has been given low odds by the National Hurricane Center of developing over the next two days.
-The third system is an area of low pressure several hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands. Slow development of this disturbance is possible over the next couple of days, and the NHC has given this area a low chance of development.

Eastern/Central Pacific

-Juliette has been spinning in the Eastern Pacific Ocean well off the Mexican coast for the past several days and is no threat to land. Unfortunately, its eyewall did manage to slam tiny Clarion Island Tuesday, a 7.6-square-mile Mexican island 435 miles southwest of Los Cabos.
-Akoni, a new tropical storm, formed much farther west than Juliette. It is expected to gain some strength, but track well south of Hawaii early next week.

This sounds like a lot of activity at once, but it's pretty par for the course this time of year.

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