Page 24 - Tropical Development News Today

Channel 9 meteorologists are continuing to monitor an area of disturbance in the Central Atlantic.

The tropical disturbance about midway between the coast of Africa and the Caribbean Sea – officially named Invest 94L – is a broad bulge in a quasi-permanent elongated area of low pressure spread across the southeastern tropical Atlantic.

Invest 93L is expected to bring gale-force winds and potentially heavy rain along portions of the Gulf Coast this week.

Start your day with the latest weather news – Heavy rain is coming to the drought-stricken Southeast. Whether or not it will be from a tropical depression is the question that remains.

A small area of low pressure over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico has a 20% chance of forming into a tropical disturbance.

A double-whammy of tropical moisture is expected to bring drenching rainfall to the Gulf Coast this week, following a rather quiet spell in that part of the Atlantic basin. Unlike in previous years, the Gulf of Mexico has not been the hot spot of tropical activity for much of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. Of the season's 17 named tropical storms, only three have passed through the waters of the Gulf. The first named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Arlene, navigated the eastern par...

The National Hurricane Center is tracking Lidia and a disturbance that is expected to soon become Max in the eastern Pacific.

The Gulf of Mexico has been quiet since Category 4 Hurricane Idalia in late August, but AccuWeather meteorologists will be watching the warm body of water for tropical activity before the middle of October. Regardless, moisture is likely to gather in the region, and that may lead to drenching rain and stormy conditions for some areas. In addition to Hurricane Idalia, there have only been Tropical Storm Arlene in early June and Tropical Storm Harold in mid-August in the Gulf of Mexico this hurric

Experts fear an already active hurricane season could come to an eventful and exceptional end as unusually warm, storm-boosting ocean temperatures and a slow-to-emerge El Niño combine.

Even though the climatological peak of hurricane season – Sept. 10 – was nearly a month ago, residents living along the East and Gulf coasts of the U.S. shouldn't let their guard down in October.