With three weeks to go in the official Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on Nov. 30, vast areas of dry air and disruptive winds have shut down tropical activity over much of the basin. However, AccuWeather meteorologists say one zone could be the breeding grounds for tropical development toward mid-November: the western and central Caribbean. Waters over much of the Caribbean remain quite warm, with surf temperatures well into the 80s F. The minimum threshold for tropical development is abou
With three weeks to go in the official Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on Nov. 30, vast areas of dry air and disruptive winds have shut down tropical activity over much of the basin. However, AccuWeather meteorologists say one zone could be the breeding grounds for tropical development toward mid-November: the western and central Caribbean. Waters over much of the Caribbean remain quite warm, with surf temperatures well into the 80s F. The minimum threshold for tropical development is abou
A batch of showers and thunderstorms has evolved into a tropical rainstorm that will roll into a portion of Central America this weekend with the likelihood of heavy rain and the potential for dangerous mudslides and flash flooding, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The system began as a tropical wave that traveled westward from the coast of Africa a couple of weeks ago and began to flare up in the past week as it entered the eastern Caribbean. However, the system did not organize enough to becom
AccuWeather meteorologists remain concerned that a persistent batch of downpours and gusty thunderstorms drifting westward across the Caribbean has a chance to undergo tropical development as it approaches Central America late this week and weekend. Conditions have become hostile for tropical development over much of the Atlantic basin as areas of dry air and disruptive winds have become more expansive over the past week. However, waters remain relatively warm over much of the basin and especial
AccuWeather meteorologists have their eye on a few tropical systems from the eastern Pacific to the western Atlantic basins this week, and at least two of these systems may be a threat to Central America. Tropical activity has trended much closer to the coasts of Central and North America in recent weeks as dry air and wind shear over the central Atlantic have become more hostile for development. Wind shear is the sudden change in speed or direction of breezes in the region that are not associat