First tropical storm of 2024 could arrive in the next week

AccuWeather forecasters say a tropical system is likely to develop in the Gulf of Mexico.

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00:00We are tracking a pretty active season a pretty impressive season coming up

00:04But it's been a slow start even though we've had those warm waters out on the Atlantic not all of the ingredients are necessarily coming

00:11Together now though the trout the tropics are starting to heat up now the latest start to the hurricane season since 2014

00:18This is for this year Arthur was formed on July 1 of 2014

00:24So it's been a decade since we've seen such a late start to the tropical season

00:29Especially when it comes to our named storms

00:31I do want to take us out though to the Atlantic Basin right now even parts of the Pacific Basin where we are tracking some

00:38Disturbances some features this one. We have a high development chance on it's

00:43Turning right off of the coast of Nicaragua

00:46It's going to be shifting north and west over these next few days

00:50Moving into the Bay of Campeche and we're tracking that start to get its act together and form some type of tropical

00:58system now we are

01:00Forecasting this storm to kind of get wrapped up or this storm to kind of get wrapped up with this one

01:05So we're kind of seeing multiple waves of energy here. That's what happens during this time of year

01:10We call that the Central American gyre gyre

01:13That's where we are tracking again that area of low pressure that we need and the spark that we need for some

01:19Rotation out in the tropics now. We are looking at a low risk here off of the southeast coast up through the mid-atlantic

01:27Low chance for development. It's getting shared out from the West. We aren't too concerned about that problem there

01:32Though it is going to be bringing some rain to areas like Bermuda and even through Atlantic Canada