U.S. meteorologists are standing behind their predictions of an active Atlantic Hurricane Season.
In a new update, NOAA still expects to see five to nine hurricanes and two to five major hurricanes.
Two months into the 2025 season, the Atlantic Ocean has seen four tropical storms, only one of which made a landfall in the U.S.
While the agency acknowledges we're off to a slow start, it points to a new disturbance taking shape off the Coast of Africa with good chance of becoming a cyclone in the next week.
The National Hurricane Center also continues to watch two areas over the Atlantic for potential development.
"A weak area of low pressure located a couple of hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina is producing a few disorganized showers and thunderstorms," said the NHC. "Development of this system, if any, is expected to be slow to occur over the next day or two while it moves northeastward at 10 to 15 mph. The low is likely to merge with a front over the weekend, ending its chances for tropical or subtropical development."
"A tropical wave over the central tropical Atlantic is producing minimal shower activity," forecasters noted. "Development of this system appears unlikely during the next day or two due to surrounding dry air, but environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive in a few days. A tropical depression could form during the early or middle part of next week while the system moves northwestward to northward across the central tropical and subtropical Atlantic."
The season ends November 30.