Another tropical storm is developing in Atlantic
Delaware Public Media’s Eli Chen and state climatologist Dan Leathers explain the latest NOAA report about the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season. “Regardless of our call for below-normal storm activity, people along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts should remain prepared and vigilant, especially now that the peak months of the hurricane season have started”.
“An El Nino is the upwelling of cool waters off the eastern Pacific and what that ends up doing is changing the global patterns of wind and temperature”, D’Angelo said. What we do know is that the environmental and atmospheric conditions across the Atlantic are conducive for development of a tropical system within the next 72 hours.
For now the system is aiming generally west. It’s far too early to say where it might go.
“Cloudiness and showers associated with a broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands are showing some signs of organization”, said hurricane specialist John Cangialosi in a Sunday evening Tropical Weather Outlook message. But as it moves farther west across the Atlantic, it likely will encounter dry air and wind shear. But this isn’t the only thing working against tropical development. If this tropical wave develops it would be named Danny. The last time August went without seeing any storms was in 1997 – and before that in 1961.