The next tropical threat to the Atlantic basin continues to be tracked by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the Caribbean Sea.

Odds of development over the next week remain in the mid-range, but the FOX Forecast Center believes those probabilities could increase as the final month of the year progresses. Atlantic hurricane season approaches.

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A large area of low pressure It is expected to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea during the second half of the work week.

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“From then on a gradual development and tropical depression “It could form over the weekend as the system begins to move north or northeast toward the central Caribbean Sea,” the NHC wrote in its latest forecast.

The next storm to be named in the Atlantic basin, which includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, will be called Patty.

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Will the potential Caribbean tropical system affect the United States?

Most of the time, these late tropical systems are not a threat to the USbut occasionally they can leave the Caribbean and affect Florida or deal an indirect blow to the east coast.

“Possibilities seem to include a weak system that wanders through the Caribbean and eventually disappears, a stronger system that moves towards Haiti, the Dominican Republic or Puerto Ricoor something in between”, FOX Weather Hurricane Specialist Bryan Norcross saying. “It would take an unlikely scenario further out than we can forecast for the system to affect Florida. So for now, we’ll keep an eye on it.”

What else is happening in the Atlantic tropics?

Elsewhere in the Atlantic basin, the tropics are expected to remain calm as we enter the final days of October and approach the start of November.

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November 30 will mark the last day of Atlantic 2024 hurricane season.

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