ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday kept the odds high that an Atlantic system could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm this week.
If it were to spin up into a named system, it could become Tropical Storm Cristobal.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the area of low pressure has limited shower and thunderstorm activity located about 500 miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the central tropical Atlantic.
“Environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive for development during the next couple of days, and a tropical depression will likely form during the latter half of this week while the system moves westward to west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic,” forecasters said.
While nothing is imminent in the Atlantic as far as tropical activity is concerned in the wake of Bertha, waters surrounding the southeastern United States remain a zone to watch through mid-August.
AccuWeather meteorologists have a particular area in mind when looking for potential tropical activity in the Atlantic basin during the first part of August, and it remains close to the United States, just as it did for Bertha in mid-July.
A zone of waters surrounding Florida, the Carolinas, Cuba, the Bahamas and Bermuda remains in the spotlight that has perhaps the best chance of cooking up a tropical depression or tropical rainstorm over the next couple of weeks or so.
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