While the National Hurricane Center dropped its concerns the remnants of Tropical Storm Cindy could reform, it began tracking another potential system in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday.
In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the NHC said an area of disturbed weather associated with a surface trough had formed about 400 miles south-southeast of Bermuda.
“Upper-level winds are marginally conducive for some slow development of this system during the next few days while it moves generally northwardat about 5 mph,” the NHC said.
It gives the system a 10% chance to form in the next two days, and 30% chance in the next seven days.
It’s very near to the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm CIndy, which is now a weak trough of low pressure just to the west. While still producing disorganized shower activity, the NHC said it is expected to drift toward the west-northwest in the coming days and be hit with strong upper-level winds, dropping any chance it could spin up into a new system.
The next tracked system could become Tropical Depression Five, and if its named could become Tropical Storm Don.
June has been busy for development with Tropical Storm Arlene forming in the Gulf of Mexico at the offset of the hurricane season followed by Tropical Storm Bret that moved over the Leeward Islands from the Atlantic into the Caribbean last week with Tropical Storm Cindy right behind that formed in the Atlantic and turned away from the Caribbean.
A warmer than normal Atlantic has allowed for more tropical formation than typically seen in the early part of the official hurricane season, which runs from June 1-Nov. 30.
