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Could 3 tropical systems form in the Atlantic over the next week?

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Updated  June 28, 2024 8:51pm EDT
Hurricanes
FOX 35 Orlando

Tropical Depression 2 will become named storm: NHC

The National Hurricane Center says a low-pressure system about 1,225 miles east-southeast of Barbados, which forecasters designated as Invest 95L, has been upgraded to a tropical depression.

ORLANDO, Fla. - UPDATE: Tropical Depression Two has strengthened into Tropical Storm Beryl. This story will no longer be updated after 8 p.m. Friday, June 28.  For the latest on Tropical Storm Beryl and other tropical waves, visit our new story here. 

The tropics are heating up! The FOX 35 Storm Team is now monitoring three systems.

Tropical Depression Two likely to become Tropical Storm Beryl

Tropical Depression Two formed late Friday afternoon in the Atlantic Ocean east of the Caribbean islands – and is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Beryl and eventually into a full-fledged hurricane before reaching the Windward Islands over the next several days, the National Hurricane Center said. Previously known as Invest 95L, the system was located about 1,200 miles east-southeast of Barbados late Friday evening.

Eastern Atlantic Tropical Wave

According to the National Hurricane Center, a tropical wave located several hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

Environmental conditions appear generally conducive for additional development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by the middle of next week while it moves generally westward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic. 

The chance of formation over the next seven days is medium, at 40%. 

Should this system be named before another disturbance in the Western Caribbean Sea (Invest 94L - see below), it would be called Chris.

Invest 94L could strengthen into tropical depression

A broad area of low pressure over the northwestern Caribbean Sea, designated by the NHC as Invest 94L, continues to produce widespread but disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity. 

Development is not anticipated before it moves inland over the Yucatán Peninsula on Saturday. The system is then forecast to move west-northwestward, emerging over the Bay of Campeche on Saturday night or early Sunday, where conditions appear generally conducive for further development. 

A tropical depression could form before the system moves inland again early next week over Mexico. Regardless of development, heavy rainfall associated with the area of low pressure will affect portions of Central America and Mexico through early next week.

The chance of formation over the next seven days is medium, at 40%. 

Should this system be named before another disturbance in the Eastern Atlantic, it would be called Chris.

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