The tropics may be about to awaken in the Atlantic

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As we move into the second half of August, AccuWeather forecasters are watching multiple areas for potential tropical storms in the Atlantic.

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00:00 Well, the tropics have been awakened.

00:01 I want to focus attention here

00:03 more specifically into the Atlantic.

00:05 Of course there's lots brewing out

00:07 into the Pacific and you want to

00:09 tune in here to the Accuweather

00:11 network for the latest on that.

00:13 Make sure you also have the hurricane tracker.

00:15 You can access that by downloading

00:17 the free Accuweather app right now.

00:19 First glance still notice how there's

00:21 a huge zone out over the open Atlantic

00:23 void of showers and thunderstorms.

00:25 Infrared satellite.

00:26 Why am I showing this one?

00:28 Why is it important while it's

00:30 showing limited thunderstorm coverage?

00:31 This colorizes the cloud tops.

00:33 The colder cloud tops showing you

00:35 where some of those tall vertical

00:37 towers of thunderstorms would be

00:38 developing not a lot of that right

00:41 now due to some of that dry,

00:43 dusty air in place.

00:44 Tropical systems love moisture.

00:45 They're all about the water and

00:47 unfortunately too much water in some

00:49 cases and wind but what happens

00:51 as we go down the road.

00:53 Let's break it down here with

00:55 regards to ingredients.

00:56 Lots of warm water in place.

00:58 Sea surface water temperatures

00:59 running above the historical average,

01:01 but what is also going to be changing?

01:03 This is key.

01:04 We're going to start to see

01:06 moisture advancing its way in,

01:07 so the dry,

01:08 dusty air will be waning the wind

01:10 shear that increase in wind shear

01:12 or the wind speed with height is

01:14 going to be reduced so there will

01:16 be some ingredients beginning

01:17 to mesh and mold together.

01:19 In fact,

01:19 some of that moisture is going to

01:21 make its way out into the Gulf of Mexico.

01:23 That's another zone we have to

01:25 look out for early next week.

01:27 In the mountains,

01:28 there will be widespread downpours

01:29 coming into Florida this weekend.

01:31 With a tropical wave,

01:32 alright,

01:32 here's the areas of interest we're

01:34 going to be following for you here

01:35 at the Accuweather Network when it

01:37 pertains to the Atlantic Basin next

01:39 couple of days will start to see

01:40 an uptick in potential production.

01:42 Medium development.

01:42 We cannot forget the Gulf of Mexico,

01:44 especially early next week.

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