BY: WEATHER TEAM | BocaNewsNow.com
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2023 MetroDesk Media, LLC) UPDATED 5 p.m. — A new system may form just off the Florida coast, according to the Monday update from the National Hurricane Center. True to form for the back-half of Hurricane Season, the focus is slowly switching from the coast of Africa to the Caribbean and the waters closer to the U.S. Mainland. Even so, another system is developing just off the African coast as the week gets underway.
Here is the Monday update from the NHC:
Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 PM EDT Mon Sep 18 2023
For the North Atlantic… Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Nigel, located over the central subtropical Atlantic.
- Eastern Tropical Atlantic: A tropical wave is expected to move off the west coast of Africa by Wednesday. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for gradual development of the wave thereafter, and a tropical depression is likely to form late this week or this weekend while the system moves westward across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic.
- Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
- Formation chance through 7 days…high…70 percent.
- Western Atlantic: A non-tropical area of low pressure is forecast to form near the southeastern coast of the United States late this week. This system could acquire some subtropical characteristics this weekend if it remains offshore while it moves generally northward. * Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
- Formation chance through 7 days…low…30 percent.
Forecaster Pasch
