MIDWAY, Fla. (WTXL) -- A tropical wave southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern Atlantic is gaining a higher level of potential to continue development into a tropical depression within the next couple of days.
The wave is thousands of miles from the United States mainland, and current computer forecast track guidance suggests the system will remain in open waters through the five-day forecast period. Strengthening is expected, and if the low becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Fiona.
A second disturbance is just beginning to exit western Africa and emerge into the Atlantic waters. It, too, will be monitored for future development potential.
We are entering the time in the season where the eastern Atlantic waters become more active in the production of tropical lows that can develop into tropical storms and hurricanes.
