As we enter the peak of hurricane season, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have now highlighted four areas of interest in the tropics for possible development.
There is no current threat to Louisiana or the northern Gulf Coast.
"A broad and elongated area of low pressure is located over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean," said the NHC Sunday morning. "Although the associated shower and thunderstorm activity has increased somewhat since yesterday, it currently lacks organization. Environmental conditions are expected to be generally conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression is likely to form later this week while moving toward the west and then west-northwest at around 10 mph, toward the waters east of the Leeward Islands."
"A small low pressure system located about 600 miles east of Bermuda continues to produce occasional, disorganized shower activity. Strong upper-level winds and dry air are expected to limit significant development of this system while it meanders over the central Atlantic during the next few days, and the low is likely to dissipate by midweek," the NHC noted.
"A trough of low pressure could develop over the northwestern Caribbean Sea during the middle part of this week. Environmental conditions could support some slow development of the system thereafter while it moves generally west-northwestward over the northwestern Caribbean Sea and toward the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico," said the NHC.
"A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa Monday or Monday night," forecasters concluded. "Some gradual development of the system is possible after that time while it moves generally westward across the far eastern tropical Atlantic."