What's next for tropical storms in the Atlantic this fall?

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Tropical Storm Sean is not expected to strengthen as it heads toward the Lesser Antilles, but mid-October could bring Tropical Storm Tammy into existence.

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00:00 tropical tracks this year.

00:01 It's been a pretty typical season as

00:03 far as the number of named storms.

00:05 And also when you're in an El Nino year,

00:07 like we are,

00:08 we typically don't have as many storms

00:10 that form in the Caribbean or the Gulf

00:12 of Mexico and sure enough we haven't.

00:14 This year just a handful,

00:15 but there's been a lot of activity

00:17 out here in the open Atlantic areas

00:19 really east of the lesser Antilles.

00:21 This whole area right in here.

00:22 There's been a lot of storminess and

00:24 as a matter of fact we actually have

00:26 a storm system out there right now.

00:29 Tropical Storm Sean is still

00:30 sitting and spinning.

00:31 Not really that organized.

00:33 There's been some wind shear

00:34 interrupting its organization,

00:36 but here's South America right here.

00:38 And here is Tropical Storm Sean.

00:40 A closer view shows the winds are

00:42 barely enough to give it tropical

00:44 storm status 40 miles an hour near

00:46 its center. The pressure has actually

00:48 risen since yesterday, which is

00:50 obviously not an indication of

00:52 strengthening 1006 millibars,

00:53 and it's moving West Northwest

00:54 at 12 miles an hour.

00:56 This one is not expected to

00:58 strengthen is it's going to stay

01:00 right around Tropical Storm strength

01:01 or a little bit less as it moves

01:04 West into the middle of next week.

01:06 North of the lesser Antilles,

01:07 so there could be some impacts there

01:09 by the middle of next week.

01:11 Meantime, later on in the forecast here,

01:13 there's a tropical tracker showing

01:15 a high risk of development of a

01:17 tropical system October 16th to the 19th.

01:20 So that's next week.

01:21 There could be some activity here

01:23 and the models show it would

01:24 make its way to the West,

01:26 so it's that same area that we're going

01:29 to be watching here folks moving forward.

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