NHC ups chances of development for two tropical waves in east Atlantic
Three tropical waves in the east Atlantic were getting closer to forming Friday afternoon, and the National Hurricane Center started tracking another wave near the still-surviving Tropical Depression Omar.
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Tropical Storm Nana, a one-time hurricane, is gone after causing flooding, power outages and crop damages in Belize and northern Guatemala. No deaths have been reported, according to the Weather Channel.
Tropical Depression Omar, which is about 450 miles east of Bermuda, could be declared a remnant low as soon as Friday evening, or it could hold on until Sunday. As of the 2 p.m. update, forecasters are also tracking a new “non-tropical area of low pressure” farther north of Omar. They dropped its chance of forming to 0%.
In the eastern Atlantic, forecasters are tracking three waves with medium to high chances of strengthening in the next few days. The nearest, around midway between the eastern Caribbean and Africa, is “nearly stationary.”
“Some development is possible during the next couple of days before it merges or interacts with a large tropical wave located to its east,” according to the hurricane center. Forecasters said it had a 20% chance of forming in the next two days and 30% in the next five days, a drop from 40% earlier in the day.
The bigger wave behind it has the highest chance of forming in the next five days — 80%.
“A tropical depression is likely to form late this weekend or early next week when the system reaches the central tropical Atlantic,” forecasters wrote.
The other wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa over the weekend, then form an area of low pressure early next week. It has a near-zero percent chance forming in the next two days, but a 60% chance of turning into a tropical depression by the middle of next week.
The next storm names would be Paulette and Rene.
