Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center continue to watch two areas for possible tropical development over the Atlantic Ocean, as well as Tropical Storm Dexter which continues to move away from land.
"A weak area of low pressure has formed from a surface trough, several hundred miles off the coast of the southeastern United States," wrote NHC Senior Hurricane Specialist Dr. Philippe Papin in a tropical weather outlook Wednesday morning. "However, this system is currently producing only limited shower and thunderstorm activity and development is likely to be slow to occur during the next few days. Thereafter, environmental conditions could become a little more conducive for development. A tropical depression could still form by this weekend as the low initially drifts westward before turning northward to northeastward by the weekend."
"A tropical wave over the eastern tropical Atlantic continues to produce a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms," said Papin. "Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for gradual development during the next few days, and a tropical depression could form late this week or over the weekend as the system moves generally west-northwestward to northwestward across the central tropical and subtropical Atlantic."
The NHC said Tropical Storm Dexter could become "a powerful extratropical cyclone by Friday" over the north Atlantic, but remains no threat to land.
While there are no local impacts from these systems, officials remind residents to review their hurricane plans as the peak of the season approaches.