MIAMI — The tropical activity in the Atlantic on Monday is much calmer than last week, when forecasters were monitoring Hurricane Earl and several other systems. Earl is long gone, but forecasters are watching two disturbances.
A tropical wave midway between the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles continues to produce a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 2 p.m. Eastern time advisory.
Some slow development of this system is possible over the next several days, the hurricane center said, while it moves west to west-northwest, approaching the Lesser Antilles by the end of the week.
The other tropical wave is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms a couple hundred miles southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands.
“Environmental conditions appear only marginally favorable, and any development of this wave should be slow to occur while it moves westward or west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic through the end of the week,” the hurricane center said.
Both systems have no chance of formation in the next 48 hours and a low 20% chance of formation through the next five days, according to the hurricane center.
Saturday was the “climatological peak” of the Atlantic hurricane season, when “conditions are most optimal for tropical storms and hurricanes over the largest area,” according to the Weather Channel. The hurricane center says most activity in the Atlantic comes between mid-August and mid-October.
The next storm name on the list is Fiona.
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(Miami Herald staff writer Omar Rodríguez Ortiz contributed to this report.)
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