AccuWeather forecasters monitoring active Atlantic

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The peak of hurricane season is less than two weeks away, and there are multiple storms and tropical waves that are tracking across the Atlantic basin.

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00:00 Well, plenty of storms and systems that

00:02 we're tracking in the Atlantic Basin.

00:04 Boy, we've had a flurry of activity

00:06 over the last couple of weeks.

00:08 We're still tracking tropical rainstorm.

00:10 Edalia we have Franklin.

00:11 We have Jose.

00:12 We have Gert and look at their

00:15 all in the Central Atlantic.

00:18 All moving to the north and northeast

00:20 away from the United States,

00:21 although we'll have to keep an eye on it.

00:23 Dahlia were also tracking tropical waves.

00:25 This could be a storm as well.

00:27 This is about 2530 degrees.

00:29 West this will be heading north

00:30 and West as well.

00:32 This could be our next storm.

00:34 Weak tropical waves in the Caribbean.

00:36 Not really going to develop much again.

00:38 We're going to keep an eye on Edalia.

00:40 It's a tropical rainstorm right now.

00:42 It may strengthen a little bit as

00:44 we head toward the weekend as we

00:47 talked about this yesterday.

00:48 We were worried that is something

00:50 whether it's a tropical rainstorm

00:51 or a storm would try to come back

00:54 toward the United States maybe late

00:55 next week will keep an eye on it.

00:58 I do believe there will be a turn toward

01:00 the Northeast United States late next week.

01:02 At some point I think it either

01:04 weekends that there's nothing left

01:06 or it will start to get steered to

01:08 the Northeast over the weekend,

01:09 so we'll certainly keep an eye on it.

01:12 I'm keeping an eye on this.

01:13 This is what's going on in the Atlantic

01:16 right now while we are looking at storms,

01:18 I think we're going through a period

01:20 of active rest in the Atlantic from

01:22 now through September 10th.

01:23 What do I mean by that?

01:25 Well,

01:25 there's a lot of dry air in

01:27 the Atlantic right now,

01:28 so this is going to shut down production.

01:30 I think at least for the next couple of days,

01:33 at least near the United States.

01:35 So with all this dry air and wind share,

01:37 I'm not expecting any impacts

01:39 into the United States.

01:40 Landfalling storms at least

01:41 through September 10th.

01:42 That's a big statement to make in

01:44 the middle of the hurricane season.

01:46 We're in the heart of the hurricane season now.

01:48 I don't think there's any US

01:50 impacts until the 10th,

01:51 but it's active because I think

01:53 there's going to be storms developing,

01:55 certainly in the eastern and central Atlantic,

01:57 but nothing that will head toward the

01:59 United States at least through the 10th.

02:01 This is the system to watch.

02:03 It is coming off Africa later today.

02:06 This I believe will strengthen

02:07 into a hurricane next week as it

02:10 continues to move to the West,

02:12 probably mid the late week.

02:13 It should strengthen into a hurricane.

02:15 I will say this development in the

02:17 eastern Atlantic is a crapshoot sometimes,

02:20 but I don't what I see in the eastern

02:22 and central Atlantic next week is all

02:25 that dry air that we've seen building

02:27 that this week will start to erode away.

02:29 You're going to get lessening

02:31 wind shear, so low wind shear.

02:33 So that's why I feel pretty confident

02:35 this will be a hurricane and it will

02:37 approach the lesser until each Friday

02:39 and the Saturday now US impacts

02:41 cannot be ruled out with this system.

02:43 This is the one to watch,

02:45 but we're not talking until like

02:46 the 14th or 15th of September,

02:48 so we're talking about two weeks.

02:50 We're giving you an update.

02:51 We're giving you kind of an alert

02:54 that we're not looking at.

02:55 Let me show you where I think this

02:57 system is going to go and this is

03:00 typical tracks here.

03:01 I believe we're going to have that

03:03 storm developing mid to late next week.

03:05 And then where does it go?

03:07 A track north of 2060.

03:09 That's this point I've highlighted

03:10 here and into the Atlantic tells

03:12 me that odds favor this system

03:14 staying east of the United States.

03:16 Now,

03:16 how can I make that bold and sassy

03:18 statement this early 'cause I do

03:20 think by the 14th or 15th we're

03:22 going to have a trough coming

03:23 down and I don't know if it gets

03:26 this far north it should be steered

03:28 away from the US of course will

03:29 keep an eye on it but a more

03:31 southern track then would put this

03:33 in the Caribbean so then you miss

03:35 this trough and then there's room

03:37 for this system to head toward

03:38 the United States.

03:39 Now many things could happen here,

03:41 but I do feel as if a more southern

03:43 track into the Caribbean would

03:45 actually increase at least the

03:47 possibility of US impacts.

03:48 Now we're way ahead of the game on this,

03:50 so we have time to track it here,

03:52 but I want to let you know as I go back.

03:55 In the tropics,

03:56 this is the system to watch for.

04:00 For US impacts,

04:00 this is the one as we get

04:02 in the mid September.

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