Tropical Atlantic May Spring to Life This Weekend An area of disturbed weather over the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Leeward Islands, is being monitored for tropical development through the weekend. While strong winds above the sea surface were inhibiting development this week, the system is forecast the weather to move into an area where winds aloft are less strong. As the disturbance moves into this zone of lower wind shear and remains over warm water, environmental conditions could support development of a tropical or sub-tropical system this weekend into early next week. Steering winds may take this system near Bermuda this weekend. It is possible this system pesters Bermuda on Sunday with heavy rain squalls and gales, During the middle of next week the system, whether it develops tropically or not, may either be swept out to the northeast, or possibly drawn westward toward New England or the Maritime provinces of Canada. This slowly turning area of weak low pressure might spin off a tropical system on the Atlantic or Pacific side of Central America during next week, During October, on average, areas most likely for tropical development in the Atlantic Basin tend to shift closer to the near-shore waters of North and Central America. Should a system develop on the Pacific side of Central America, the next name on the list of eastern Pacific tropical cyclones for 2014 is Trudy.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:49:10 +0000
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