Tropical disturbance has 40% chance of developing

Channel 9 meteorologists are monitoring tropical waves moving west through the Atlantic.

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Update

Chief meteorologist Tom Terry said we’re less than two weeks from the peak of the hurricane season (Sept. 10), and we’ll have to keep close tabs on a developing tropical disturbance well into next week.

By late next week, tropical models have a tropical system developing in the Caribbean -- something we’ll be monitoring closely.

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The disturbance has a 40% chance of developing over the next seven days, Terry said.

Francine is the next named storm -- a replacement name for Florence that damaged and flooded the Carolinas in 2018 and was retired.

Watch Terry’s live updates on the tropics on Channel 9 Eyewitness News .

Earlier story

One of the waves has a 40% chance of tropical formation over the next week.

The low-pressure area will slowly try to develop as it moves closer to the Caribbean.

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Another strong tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa has a strong chance of tropical development in the future.

Both areas will likely develop, but it’s still too soon to know where they will go and how strong they will become.

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If either of the two areas becomes a named storm, it will be called Francine.

Thankfully, the tropics currently remain quiet near Florida.

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• Brian Shields