A new tropical disturbance is drawing attention to the Atlantic Ocean Basin.
Dry air and strong winds over the basin for several weeks have prevented organized tropical activity. Fay was the last system to form, it made landfall in New Jersey on July 10.
Sunday afternoon, a tropical wave over Hispaniola, the southeastern Bahamas, and the water of Southwestern Atlantic Ocean drew attention.
“A tropical wave is merely a disturbance or ripple in the atmosphere that moves westward from Africa and contains showers and thunderstorms along with a shift in the wind direction,” said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
Sosnowski added, “there can be as many as half a dozen or so tropical waves that emerge from the west coast of Africa every week to 10 days.”
At the moment the disturbance is creating disorganized showers, as it draws into the Gulf, conditions will become more conducive to a tropical development.
The wave is expected to reach the central Gulf on Wednesday and the northwestern Gulf by Thursday.
