Tracking the tropics

AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno takes a look at what's going on in the tropics.

Transcript

00:00keeping an eye on the tropics it's been relatively quiet in the atlantic basin which it normally is

00:11but if you blinked your eye earlier this week you would have missed this our first tropical storm it

00:16was andrea north and east of bermuda it spun up really quickly then spun down quite a bit here

00:22it was a tropical storm it had no impact on land here but that does make our first storm of the

00:28season now this is a unique accuweather term you're going to hear this other places but i'm telling

00:33you we kind of developed this term homegrown development that means close development to the

00:40united states you see that during the month of june and july during the month of june see there's

00:44the development area caribbean gulf of america and also off the southeast coast of the united states

00:51and it happens when you get a interaction between the jet stream and those warm waters that is when

00:57the jet stream comes south because it brings fronts upper lows and that's how you can kick start the

01:02process now the atlantic you can see why we don't get any development out in the tropical atlantic look

01:08at all the dry air you see that from from uh african coast all the way toward the caribbean so this part

01:14of the basin where we get most of the storms during the hurricane season is shut down this time of the

01:21year not only because of dry air but you know you also have wind shear look at our winter product look at

01:26all the dark purple covering the atlantic basin so that's why you have to look close to the united

01:30states now that upper low we've been tracking that that is across florida that is not going to become

01:36a tropical system because it is inland we'll continue to keep an eye on it remember i was talking about

01:42the belly of the upper high with areas of thunderstorms in the caribbean we're going to watch

01:47that that there's a little small chance that could spin up into a depression or storm later this week