Two areas of low pressure in the Atlantic Ocean are being monitored by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), including one with a high chance of development.
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The system off the coast of Africa, AL96, is centered a a few hundred miles south-southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands and is producing “disorganized showers and thunderstorms,” the NHC said.
This is the system with the better chance of moving around some lingering Saharan dust and potentially strengthening into a tropical depression by the weekend.
It has a 70% chance of forming in the next 48 hours and a 70% chance of forming within the next seven days, the NHC said in an update at 8 a.m. Tuesday, while it moves westward and north-westward across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic.
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The NHC is also monitoring AL95, which is located near Bermuda and has a shorter window to potentially become a tropical depression. A frontal boundary is forecast to run into it, and it’ll be moving into cooler sea surface temperatures, both of which will limit tropical characteristics.
If a system does develop into a depression and then a tropical storm, the next name on the list is Dolly.
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