3 Areas Of Tropical Weather Formation Possible Off Coast

With Tropical Storm Dexter weakening as it heads out to sea on Tuesday, forecasters continue to keep a close eye on three areas for possible development — including one off the coast of Florida, experts said.

As Dexter continues its northeast trek across the Atlantic Ocean with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, coastal northern North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland are at a high risk for rip currents on Tuesday and Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.

The system is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone within days and then regain strength over open waters, the NHC added.

Three other hotspots also have the potential to develop into storms over the next several days. If any of these systems were to become a tropical storm or hurricane, the next three storm names for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season are Erin, Fernand and Gabrielle.

A weak surface trough several hundred miles off the southeastern U.S. Atlantic coast — including Florida’s east coast — has a 10 percent chance of strengthening into a tropical depression or storm over the next two days and a 40 percent chance of intensifying over the next week, NHC forecasters said.

The disturbance “is expected to form an area of low pressure in a day or so,” the agency said. After this, it’s forecast to move slowly westward before turning more northward by the weekend.

Whether it develops or not, heavy rain is expected across parts of the Southeast this week, AccuWeather meteorologists said.

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"Then, late this week and this weekend, steering breezes will guide any low pressure area and its downpours and gusty thunderstorms onshore in the Carolinas," Alex DaSilva, AccuWeather’s lead hurricane expert, added.

Eyes are also on a tropical wave coming off Africa’s west coast that has a 50 percent chance of strengthening over the next week, according to the NHC.

The wave is currently producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. As it gradually develops, a tropical depression could form later this week or over the weekend as the system moves west-northwest across the Atlantic, NHC forecasters said.

According to most models, the system will likely hook north “into the dry and dusty air and not affecting land, although the American GFS model has been insisting that the blocking high pressure system will rebuild across the Atlantic and push the system farther west,” Bryan Norcross, a Fox Weather hurricane specialist, wrote in his blog, Hurricane Intel.

A tropical wave of low pressure is also traveling west-northwest over the Caribbean’s northern islands this week, AccuWeather forecasters said. This wave will enter the Gulf by early next week and has a low chance of developing into a tropical depression or storm.

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