Most of the tropical weather attention the past several days has been focused on Hurricane Danny. As the only named storm in the tropical Atlantic Basin that attention has been well deserved. However there are two other areas of disturbed weather that forecasters are watching in the Atlantic. One is situated just off the East Coast of the United. States. The other is a tropical wave that has rolled off the African Continent and appears to be following in the path of Danny.

The system off the East Coast has been designated as 97L by the Hurricane Center. If it weren't for a cold front pushing across the nation's heartland this weekend, this could be a real trouble maker for the big cities of the northeast. This system is not anticipated to be much more than an area of showers and thunderstorms. It is also expected to remain at sea before being swept up in the aforementioned cold front early next week.

The system off the coast of Africa has a slightly better chance for development than the one located just north of Bermuda. This system is in the vicinity of the Cape Verde Islands and this time of year that is a hot bed for tropical development.

The National Hurricane Center gives this system a 30% chance of strengthening into a tropical cyclone over the next two days. Forecasters are suggesting that over the next five days this system will have a much better chance, 60%, of becoming a tropical cyclone. This system will most likely be the next one the Hurricane Center begins to focus on once Hurricane Danny has either dissipated or made landfall.

 

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