I’m currently watching two area’s of interest in the tropical Atlantic late this morning. The first area (invest 98L) is what I was monitoring yesterday near Bermuda and east of the Bahamas. This system has become a little more organized, but still remains weak. This area could become a sub-tropical or tropical storm during the next 48 hours or so, but even if it does develop, it will be moving out over open ocean only affecting shipping lanes.

Central Atlantic / East Caribbean Sea

The new and more impressive tropical disturbance (invest 99L) is located about 900 miles east of the southern Windward Islands and the eastern Caribbean Sea. This is looking much better this morning with a increase in deep convection and cyclonic turning structure in the satellite presentation. Some of the computer models bring this new area to hurricane strength in the Caribbean in the coming week. This system will have to be closely monitored for further develop and later down the road if it does develop for any possible threats in the Florida to Gulf coast area’s.

The question now is, which system will get named first and become Tropical Storm Chantal? I’ll be monitoring both systems over the next few days and will update if again later today or tonight is if any significant increase in organization takes place with either disturbances.

The tropics are heating up, are you ready?

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