A week after Hurricane Milton tore through Florida, the National Hurricane Center is monitoring another potential storm in the Atlantic Ocean.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is far from over, even though there are no active named systems. The next named storm will be Nadine. Nadine has yet to form, but the NHC is monitoring an area of ​​disturbed weather now several hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands that has a 50 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression.

Meteorologists have not published an official path for the storm because it has not yet developed, but the estimated track shows the stormShould it develop, it will target Southeast Florida after moving through Puerto Rico.

The NHC said that as of Monday morning, the system consisted of a “well-defined area of ​​low pressure” producing “disorganized showers and thunderstorms.”

“This system is currently embedded in an arid environment and development is unlikely in the next few days,” the update said. “However, this system is forecast to move generally westward toward warmer waters, and environmental conditions could become more favorable for gradual development by the middle to latter part of this week.”

A tropical depression could develop later this week as the potential storm moves west-northwest toward the Leeward Islands, the NHC said.

WFLA-TV Chief Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli reported Newsweek that while there are no immediate tropical threats, weather models show there will be plenty of tropical waves and moisture in the coming weeks.

Tropical waves are areas of low pressure in the ocean. Eighty-five percent of tropical storm development originates from tropical waves, AccuWeather reported.

Berardelli said the models will reveal “hints of development” over the next 10 days.

“A favorable climate pattern will emerge again in the coming weeks,” he said.

In addition to the system monitored by the NHC in the Atlantic Ocean, AccuWeather meteorologists are also monitoring a gyre — or a large system of rotating ocean currents — that could develop into a stronger storm in the western Caribbean late this week. The NHC has not yet started monitoring this area on its website.

AccuWeather has expressed concern that very warm ocean temperatures could contribute to the development of tropical storms in the western Caribbean. Warm water contributed to the rapid strengthening of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Matt Benz previously said Newsweek.

“It needs to be watched, but the models are tepid in terms of development,” Berardelli said of the western Caribbean system, adding that a cold front will pass through Florida this week that could act “as a wall for any tropical system trying to move”. north”, at least temporarily.