Overview
- The National Hurricane Center reports a frontal low about 180 miles off North Carolina has a 40 percent chance of tropical cyclone formation within both the next 48 hours and seven days.
- Forecasters say environmental conditions are marginally favorable for the North Carolina disturbance to become a tropical or subtropical depression as it moves east-northeast at roughly 10 mph.
- A tropical wave forecast to move off Africa’s west coast holds a 20 to 30 percent chance of development over the next seven days while tracking west-northwest across the central Atlantic.
- The Climate Prediction Center warns two additional systems could form near Central Florida with 20 to 40 percent odds of development in the next ten days.
- NOAA’s 2025 seasonal outlook anticipates 13 to 19 named storms, including 6 to 10 hurricanes and 3 to 5 major hurricanes, between June and November.