MIAMI, Florida – NOAA‘s National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, issued a Tropical Weather Outlook at 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday, July 28, 2024, due to the presence of a system that may form into a tropical cyclone within the next 7 days over the Caribbean and then head to Florida.
The system (marked with an orange “X”) is an area of disturbed weather located over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean that is expected to interact with an approaching tropical wave during the next several days.
NHC forecasters say that development of this system will be possible in a day or two, and a tropical depression could form around midweek while the system is near or over the northern Leeward Islands, Greater Antilles, or southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
This system has a 40% chance of tropical cyclone formation within the next 7 days and a near 0% chance within the next 48 hours.
If this system develops into a tropical storm or hurricane, the next name on the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane List is Debby.
NOAA and Colorado State University forecast an “extremely active” 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which runs from June 1 through November 30.