Hurricane forecasters are tracking a tropical wave near the Windward Islands that they say could develop some after it reaches the Caribbean Sea. The system was producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms a few hundred miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands Monday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said in its Forecasters expect the wave to continue moving west. Though the system has almost no chance of forming into a tropical storm within the next week, forecasters said it could gain some strength once it reaches the Caribbean Sea, where environmental conditions are conducive to slow development.
Forecasters said they expect the system to reach the Caribbean late this week. Hurricane forecasters , thanks to the return of La Niña conditions and record warm waters in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. A handful of disturbances have already appeared in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico this season, and , the first named storm of 2024, brought heavy rain and coastal flooding to portions of southeast Louisiana as it made landfall in Mexico on June 20.
Tropical activity at the start of hurricane season is not unusual..