New tropical threat to US may arise next week

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New tropical threat to US may arise next week

An area close to Central America, Cuba and Florida has the potential to give birth to the next significant tropical threat to the southeastern ******* States in the days ahead,

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meteorologists warn.

“The region we are closely watching is more commonly a threat to tropical development in the late spring or mid- to late autumn,” AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva stated, “There’s even evidence of the Central America gyre now, which is also more common in the spring and later in the autumn.”

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The gyre is a vast but weak, slow-spinning storm, and it has set up over Central America. A gyre over the warm water of the Caribbean makes it easier for clusters of showers and thunderstorms to form, which can evolve into tropical depressions and storms either on the Atlantic or Pacific sides of Central America.

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Typically during the middle to late part of September, tropical storms and hurricanes are generated by

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that originate from *******. However, in recent weeks, unusual conditions have disrupted the evolution of tropical waves, resulting in fewer named storms.

Not only have the tropics been behaving strangely, but so have weather patterns in general across the U.S. Waves of cool air moved into the Southwest, and an unusually strong

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-level storm in the Southeastern states formed in the wake of Francine. The jet stream storm helped create a

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that made landfall in North Carolina-a setup more common for mid- to late October.

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The weirdness may continue should a potent tropical storm or hurricane spin up next week more so from the Central America gyre rather than a tropical wave over the Atlantic Ocean.

“Given how warm waters typically are in the region and energy from the Central America gyre, there is the potential for any system that forms over the western Caribbean to the central Gulf to quickly intensify and track into the U.S.,” DaSilva said.

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There will likely be some stiff breezes (

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) near the U.S., but systems that move with the shear rather than against it are sometimes less negatively affected by it, DaSilva explained.

AccuWeather has designated the formation window from Sunday, Sept. 22, through Friday, Sept. 27. This only represents the ******* when a tropical depression or storm may form and not the entire life cycle. Any landfall could occur days after the formation *******.

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Residents, visitors, fishing, shipping, and cruise interests from Central America to southeastern Mexico, Cuba, the U.S. Gulf Coast, the southern Atlantic coast, and the Bahamas should monitor the situation.

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