Stage set for tropical development

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AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno breaks down the conditions for possible tropical development next week as we head into the heart of the hurricane season.

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00:00Hey, time is a ticking here.

00:01We are really approaching our

00:03heart of the hurricane season.

00:04Some would argue we're already in it.

00:06Yeah, you know, I've got a couple of stats.

00:08I want to show you here, Ariella.

00:10Why do we call late September or late

00:12August in the September the heart

00:14of the hurricane season?

00:15Well, if you take a look at the number

00:18of storms that have been reported

00:19from May through December,

00:22so even outside of the Hurricane Center,

00:24because the Hurricane Center is

00:25June through December.

00:26When you take a look at that,

00:28most of the activity is right in here.

00:30Late August in this September,

00:32where you have the most named

00:33storms and also the hurricane.

00:34So that's one stat we can do.

00:36Let's take a look at another one here.

00:38Number of days doing a number of times

00:40during this period that we've had a land

00:43falling hurricane in the United States.

00:46On these days since 1850 here from

00:50August 27th through October 16th.

00:52And you can see here we go.

00:55August in the September,

00:56the highest date for landfalling.

00:59Hurricanes is actually September 16th,

01:01but you could see August and through

01:04the month of September is well

01:06represented here for the number of

01:08days where you get a landfalling storm.

01:10So it just shows you that much of the

01:13activity now is doing this time frame,

01:15and it's it's mostly because this is

01:17when the water temperatures peak and

01:19also you don't have the Saharan dust,

01:22right?

01:22That shuts the tropics down.

01:24Typically doing July and early parts of

01:27August now having said that it's

01:29eerily quiet right now.

01:30I mean, we should be looking at a

01:33tropical storm or hurricane.

01:34At least one of them tracking.

01:36We don't have anything right now,

01:38but we've been watching this

01:39organized mess this morning.

01:41Now this is going to take it some

01:43time to kind of shake out here.

01:45I suspect that this is the area of

01:47thunderstorms that will begin to take over,

01:49but there's no organization right now,

01:51and I think it's going to take

01:53some time for this system to organize.

01:55The question is, will it?

01:56I think the answer is yes,

01:58and here's why.

01:59When you look at the water vapor loop,

02:01by the way, here's all the Saharan dust,

02:03but you could already see there's

02:04not much more coming off Africa,

02:06so I think this dry,

02:07dusty air is going to start going

02:09away here in the next week to 10 days.

02:11I don't see any dryer coming into this area.

02:13In fact,

02:14you could see it getting pushed away

02:15so the dry air isn't going to stop this.

02:18I wouldn't say it's in an ideal

02:19location for wind shear or wind shear

02:21purples is where we do have some

02:23stronger wind shears that would not

02:25allow this system to develop.

02:26It kind of rips it apart.

02:28It's OK, but you'll notice.

02:31In here, Caribbean,

02:32this is where we've been pointing all

02:34week that that is the area to watch as

02:36this continues its move to the West Northwest.

02:39I would not look for much of

02:41anything here this weekend,

02:42although there will be some impacts

02:43Sunday night, Monday morning,

02:45across all of the lesser Antilles

02:46with some locally every rain.

02:48I do believe we will have a named

02:50storm in the Caribbean by Tuesday

02:52and Wednesday of next week.

02:54Not the only system we're watching

02:56an area thunderstorms coming off Africa.

02:57I think this will likely be a

02:59named storm to at some point next week.

03:01We have a low chance for it for now,

03:04but even if it does develop,

03:05it's not heading toward the US.

03:07It's heading into the Central Atlantic,

03:09but of course we'll keep an eye on it.

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