Several tropical threats lurking in the Atlantic

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Forecasters say there are several potential areas of tropical development across the Atlantic right now, including one that's already soaking the Gulf Coast.

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00:00Well, we're going to take you into the Atlantic.

00:01We're tracking a tropical rainstorm

00:03off the coast of Cape Cod.

00:05That's going to be sending some wind and rain into Nova

00:08Scotia in just a bit.

00:10But as we take a look at how we're doing here,

00:12the number of tropical storms we've had so far,

00:14typically by now, we'd be between number seven

00:16and number eight for the year.

00:18We've had only five.

00:20And five named storms is the average number

00:23by August 22nd.

00:24So we're running behind through that metric.

00:26We're closer to average when it comes

00:28to the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes.

00:30But overall, here are the features that we're tracking.

00:32We've got a tropical rainstorm moving up

00:34into the Canadian Maritimes.

00:35We've got another one that we've been dealing with all week.

00:37And we're going to be dealing with that for the next week,

00:40too, as it migrates south.

00:41This disturbance merges with it as it moves across the Yucatan

00:45and comes back north into Texas with a new round

00:47of heavy rain from that.

00:49Then we're tracking a couple of tropical waves

00:50off the west coast of Africa that will need to be watched.

00:53But here's the overall outlook.

00:55You can see around the middle of next week,

00:57low chance of development in the eastern Atlantic.

00:59But otherwise, these two tropical rainstorms,

01:01there's a chance that the one in the Gulf

01:03could become a named entity, depending

01:05on how it behaves in the southwestern Gulf.

01:07But for now, the tropical rainstorm

01:09that will not become a named entity because it's not really

01:12tropical is moving north into the area around Nova

01:15Scotia with 40 to 60 mile per hour gusts,

01:18two to four inches of rain.

01:20For Nova Scotia, this is a very manageable storm.

01:22And therefore, it will have an AccuWeather real impact scale

01:25of less than one, which is good news.

01:27But we're going to keep a close eye on this.

01:30The bulk of the rain scoots east across parts of Florida.

01:33But the core of the upper level low is going to migrate south.

01:36And you can see as this drifts south,

01:37it gets energized by this new disturbance

01:39coming across the Yucatan.

01:41And it comes back into Texas.

01:42So we're getting ready for a very wet week ahead next week.

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