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Monitoring potential tropical development in the Atlantic
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8/29/2024
AccuWeather's Alex DaSilva and Bernie Rayno monitor possible tropical development brewing in the Atlantic as we move closer towards the peak of hurricane season in September.
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It feels like I've been in hibernation the last couple of weeks. Not a whole lot of activity at
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all, so it's good to be back, but it looks like things are really going to be ramping up here
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as we head towards the statistical peak of the hurricane season, which is September 10th. You
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can see that graph there. It's like you're going up a roller coaster. Up, up, up, up, up,
00:16
all the way up until September 10th, and then it's coming down from there. But it looks like
00:19
things are really going to be ramping up here. All right, let's take the first system we've been
00:24
talking about this all week, an area of showers and thunderstorms now around 40 degrees west.
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One thing I've noticed, Alex, is that on the infrared satellite picture, you've seen
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yellows, oranges, and reds for a pretty long period of time, and that tells us that this
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tropical wave, at the very least, is holding its own. It certainly is, and that's kind of
00:42
been the problem for much of the year here, is these tropical waves have been actually pretty
00:46
robust, but they roll off of Africa, and then they hit that Saharan dust that we've been talking
00:50
about for weeks and weeks, and they just fall apart. So they really haven't been able to make
00:54
much headway or develop across the Atlantic as they've come west. Now, take a look at this,
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Alex. Maybe some dry air along the northern periphery, but it has a river or a little area
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off to the west where there's not much dry air. You see blue and white, and that means
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there's enough moisture, at the very least, to keep this system, let's say, viable. It certainly
01:16
does, and if you looked at this map a few weeks ago, almost the entire map would have been orange
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or red, but now we're starting to see that dry air starting to wane as we head towards the peak
01:25
of the hurricane season. More tropical waves are starting to come off of Africa, and I think we
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have to watch each and every one of these, including this first one, for development here
01:34
within the next couple of days. There's the wind shear product. There is some dark purple,
01:38
southern edge of that, but what I see is also a ribbon of light purple extending toward the
01:43
islands and into the Caribbean. Yeah, besides the dry air, the wind shear has kind of been a
01:48
problem this month as well, but it looks like that is also starting to come down, especially
01:52
across what we call that main development region, which is from the Caribbean all the way out
01:56
towards Africa. So you can see that ribbon of lighter purple in there, more favorable environment
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for the storm as it's approaching the eastern Caribbean. ACUA, the lead hurricane expert, Alex
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da Silva, thanks for joining us.
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