NHC tracking disturbance as hurricane season approaches
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The National Hurricane Center identified an area of low pressure in the Atlantic on Wednesday.
The NHC issued a special tropical weather outlook at 4:10 p.m. for the low, which is located about 900 miles northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
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The report describes the system as a “small but persistent area of showers and thunderstorms” that caught the NHC’s attention Wednesday morning.
This comes just after meteorologists predicted an “extremely active” hurricane season, which officially begins on June 1.
In their report, NHC meteorologists said they don’t anticipate putting out additional special tropical weather outlooks for the low pressure system. It has just a 10% chance of development through the next week and is expected to move south to an area with higher upper level winds.
“I don’t think we’ll end up seeing our first system, but we’re letting you know we’re watching it out there, and the season is just around the corner,” Max Defender 8 Meteorologist Rebecca Barry said.
If it were to develop into a tropical storm, the system would be named Alberto.
The NHC’s typical tropical weather outlooks are set to resume on May 15.
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