Things are suddenly getting very interesting in the tropics.
An area of disturbed weather associated with a tropical wave over the northwestern Caribbean remains disorganized this morning. One of the global prediction models has been bullish on developing a tropical depression near Cuba, then sending it westward across the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas. That possibility is still very real.
A strong tropical wave has moved off the western coast of Africa. It is accompanied by intense convection this morning. There are indications that this system will become a tropical depression over the weekend or early next week as it moves westward. By midweek, we will be tracking a Cape Verde hurricane as it approaches the islands of the Caribbean. By next weekend, this could be a powerful hurricane threatening the Carolinas.
Hurricane Flossie in the eastern Pacific may well threaten Hawaii by midweek.
We will all be watching.
