The big story over the next week in the tropics will be Hurricane Sam, which will come close to the Lesser Antilles and Bermuda. Sam is the seventh hurricane to form in the Atlantic basin this year. It formed form a disturbance that exited the coast of Africa. The cyclone will stay a major hurricane for several days.
There are several troughs moving across the country that will help provide a barrier for between the U.S. East Coast and the cyclone. The trough should produce enough of a pull that Sam will move away from the Lesser Antilles and towards Bermuda.
Elsewhere in the Atlantic, Subtropical Storm Teresa recently formed off the coast of the Mid-Atlantic. The system didn’t survive for long and its remnants will continue into the North Atlantic. There are two are to keep an eye on over the next few weeks. One area will be off the coast of Africa. The good news is that anything that develops will likely recurve out to see.
A second area to monitor will eventually develop in the Caribbean Sea. It’s always important to closely monitor systems in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico because cyclone is always guaranteed to strike land, thanks to the bodies of water being nearly landlocked. Anything that does develop will likely wait until the second week in October to fully develop.
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