The National Hurricane Center began to predict a system on Thursday that could form in the Atlantic and developed into the next tropical depression or storm of the season.
From the NHCs 2 pm Eastern Time Tropical Outlook, the agency said that a tropical wave would come in front of the west coast of Africa on Sunday.
“After that, environmental conditions can support a slow development of this system, while it goes west to West-Noordwestward on 15 to 20 mph over the eastern and central tropical Atlantic Ocean next week,” said predictors.
The NHC gave it a 20% chance of developing for the next seven days.
If it develops, it would be the seventh tropical cyclone of the season and would become the tropical storm Gabrielle.
The sixth, tropical storm Fernand, became post-tropical early Thursday 635 Mijl East-Southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland that moved East-Noordoost at 23 km / h with maximum persistent winds of 45 km / h.
Only one of the six storms mentioned has reached hurricane status. What Hurricane had been in it, which grew into the large hurricane status of category 5 with 160 km / h winds, ultimately did not make a landing, but soon this month quickly warnings in the Caribbean and the American Atlantic coast.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at the beginning of August updated its season forecast to call 13-18 for storms this year, of which five to nine would grow into hurricanes. Two to five of them would develop into large hurricanes of category 3 or higher.
The highlight of the hurricane season runs from mid -August to October, while the entire season of six months runs from 1 June to 30 November.
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