The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday it is monitoring two new tropical waves as Hurricane Gabrielle is set to move away from the United States.
One tropical system located 300 miles east of the Leeward Islands, the archipelago that separates the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, could form into a tropical depression within the coming week, according to Monday’s bulletin from the center.
Tropical waves are areas of thunderstorms and rain that travel westward over the Atlantic during hurricane season, while a tropical depression has maximum sustained winds of 38 mph or less. The NHC monitors those waves to determine whether they’ll develop into depressions, tropical storms, or hurricanes….