Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
Tropical system likely to develop in the Gulf of Mexico
AccuWeather
Follow
6/14/2024
AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva joined Bernie Rayno on the AccuWeather Network on June 14 to discuss what's next in the hurricane season.
Category
🗞
News
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
Joining me right now AccuWeather lead hurricane expert Alex DaSilva and you
00:04
know Alex before we get into the specifics one thing that's just kind of
00:09
eye-popping here as I call this up is the water temperature anomalies not the
00:14
actual water temperatures but the actual water temperature anomalies. Water
00:19
temperatures now compared to the historical average for the last 30 years
00:23
and it's really eye-popping how warm these waters are. It's very impressive
00:28
out there right now Bernie taking a look at the water temperatures it's
00:31
basically bathtub water across most of the Atlantic Basin and it's just going
00:35
to continue to get warmer and warmer. Last year was the warmest season on
00:39
record in terms of sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Basin and
00:42
right now we are outpacing 2023. The one thing I noticed Alex is that a couple of
00:48
weeks ago we had a ribbon of colder water along the southeast coast of the
00:52
United States it looks as though that's actually kind of turned around in the
00:56
last few weeks. Yeah sometimes if the winds really pick up we sometimes get
01:00
like an onshore wind yeah and actually mix up the water a little bit and can
01:03
actually bring cooler waters up to the surface we call that upwelling. Usually
01:07
doesn't last too long and as you saw in the last graphic there it looks like
01:10
those waters have rebounded very very quickly and are back to their bathtub
01:14
levels. Well I mentioned that because let's take you into the southeastern
01:18
off the southeast coast of the United States this is that upper low that moved
01:23
across the southeast now it's over the warmer waters but this is running out of
01:27
time to develop isn't it? It is it's over the Gulf Stream so it's got plenty of
01:31
warm water to work with unfortunately for the system it's dealing with a lot
01:35
of wind shear southwest to northeast wind shear so this thing's probably just
01:39
going to get pulled apart as it continues to move to the north and east
01:41
I'm not too concerned about development even if it does develop it looks like
01:45
it's going to be heading out into the Atlantic away from the US. Let's head
01:49
down toward the Central America and and and Mexico where we've seen a growing
01:55
area of showers and thunderstorms nothing organized but it's a pretty
02:00
large area of showers and thunderstorms Alex. Yeah this time of year you get
02:04
what we call the gyre Central American gyre to develop across the Central
02:08
American countries it's a giant area of spin and you can see that there by the
02:12
cluster of thunderstorms there so sometimes what we get is an area to
02:16
break off from that gyre and move to the north into the Western Caribbean or
02:20
Gulf of Mexico and that's exactly what we're going to see here over the
02:23
Father's Day weekend and into early next week we're going to see a cluster of
02:26
thunderstorms break out into the Bay of Campeche and it looks like it has a
02:30
really good shot of development here low wind shear you can take a look at the
02:34
graphic right here plenty of purple to the north of the Gulf of Mexico in the
02:38
northern part but in that southwestern Gulf of Mexico in the Bay of Campeche
02:42
there low wind shear can't allow this thing to develop. Yeah we kind of went
02:47
and we upgraded this yesterday Alex to a high threat for development this is
02:51
going to likely unless something happens it off the southeast coast of United
02:56
States this is going to be our next storm or our first storm correct? Yeah it
03:00
looks that way it's nice and warm in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico and actually
03:04
as a matter of fact that area look at how it's shaped like a bowl that
03:08
southwestern Gulf of Mexico that can actually help to induce spin the shape
03:12
of the coastline there so we actually see a lot of development in that area
03:16
and the shape of the coastline there that kind of roundness to it can
03:20
actually help to induce spin interestingly enough. All right Acua the
03:24
lead hurricane expert Alex Da Silva thank you again for joining us lots lots
03:29
to look for over the next week to ten days.
Recommended
3:42
|
Up next
Tropical rainstorm to intensify near the Caribbean
AccuWeather
8/12/2024
3:49
High risk for tropical development
AccuWeather
11/12/2024
4:01
New high risk tropical threat for the US
AccuWeather
9/19/2024
5:24
High risk tropical threat for the US
AccuWeather
9/20/2024
4:39
Gyre could jumpstart activity in the tropics
AccuWeather
5/8/2025
6:39
Another named storm expected to develop in the Caribbean
AccuWeather
11/12/2024
5:33
Major hurricane threat for the U.S. Gulf Coast
AccuWeather
9/24/2024
5:33
Tropical Storm Rafael to threaten US by weekend
AccuWeather
11/5/2024
3:01
AccuWeather forecasters tracking potential tropical disturbance
AccuWeather
5/13/2022
3:23
Reduced number of storms expected for hurricane season
AccuWeather
9/4/2024
5:33
Major hurricane to make landfall in U.S. Gulf Coast
AccuWeather
9/23/2024
1:09
New high-risk tropical threat may arise for US next week
AccuWeather
9/18/2024
1:39
AccuWeather's 2022 Pacific hurricane season forecast
AccuWeather
5/11/2022
6:35
Tropical system may be on its way to the Southeast
AccuWeather
8/11/2021
3:07
Beginning of an expectedly active Atlantic hurricane season
AccuWeather
5/31/2024
4:39
AccuWeather team recounts tracking Hurricane Ian
AccuWeather
6/8/2023
4:07
Season's first hurricane may develop next week
AccuWeather
6/28/2024
5:12
Hurricane Rafael threatens Cuba as major hurricane
AccuWeather
11/6/2024
3:30
2024 Atlantic hurricane season update
AccuWeather
11/18/2024
3:22
AccuWeather predicts an active hurricane season
AccuWeather
3/26/2025
5:47
Tracking the tropics for potential development in Caribbean
AccuWeather
6/5/2025
6:04
Hurricane Ida expected to rapidly intensify before landfall in Louisiana
AccuWeather
8/28/2021
5:51
Widespread storms expected Wednesday across the central US
AccuWeather
6/3/2025
3:59
The latest hurricane season outlook
AccuWeather
6/5/2023
6:30
AccuWeather hurricane experts warn of a 'super-charged hurricane season"
AccuWeather
2/20/2024