{"id":70164,"date":"2026-08-25T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/70164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T14:05:15","slug":"atlantic-hurricane-season-waking-up-dolly-could-soon-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/70164\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic hurricane season waking up: Dolly could soon form"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward its typically busiest time of year, and one disturbance could become Tropical Storm Dolly later this week. <\/p>\n

Here are the areas we’re watching<\/p>\n

The graphic below shows the two areas that are being monitored by the National Hurricane Center. <\/p>\n

One is located in the central Atlantic east of Bermuda and the other is located in the eastern Atlantic. <\/p>\n

\"DCTChances of development?<\/p>\n

Central Atlantic (Invest 95L): This low is located a few hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda. The system still could become a short-lived depression or storm Tuesday as it continues to drift north away from Bermuda. However its window for development is expected to close by Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Eastern Atlantic (Invest 96L): A tropical wave<\/a> is off the coast of Africa south of the Cabo Verde Islands and could develop into a tropical depression, then possibly Tropical Storm Dolly within the next few days. <\/p>\n

(MORE: What tropical terms actually mean<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Are either of these a threat?<\/p>\n

The central Atlantic low may enhance rain and gusty winds in parts of Newfoundland later Tuesday into early Wednesday, but then will merge with a cold front and is, therefore, no significant threat. <\/p>\n

The eastern Atlantic system is still about 2,500 miles away from the Lesser Antilles. <\/p>\n

There appear to be two options with this:<\/p>\n

It could struggle with the same El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>-enhanced wind shear and dry air other systems have fought against in recent weeks as it continues moving toward the west-northwest, arriving near the Lesser Antilles by Sunday with some increase in showers. <\/p>\n

(MORE: What is wind shear<\/a>?)<\/p>\n

\"DCTIf it fights off this shear and dry air and develops, it’s expected to then make a northward turn next week in the Atlantic, where it could escape El Ni\u00f1o’s influence. Some computer guidance says this could be a tropical storm or hurricane as it gets to the subtropical Atlantic a week to ten days from now. \"DCT<\/p>\n

While it’s too soon to be certain about what happens with this system next week, it is not an immediate concern for the mainland U.S. <\/p>\n

Those in the Lesser Antilles should monitor the progress of this system, as with any system during hurricane season. <\/p>\n

Tropics on the rise<\/p>\n

We are in the ramp-up of the Atlantic hurricane season. <\/p>\n

The escalation begins in August and continues until peak hurricane season in the second week of September. <\/p>\n

El Ni\u00f1o is also ramping up, but that doesn’t guarantee that no storms will form. It just hinders their chances. <\/p>\n

\"Hurricane<\/p>\n

It only takes one storm to make a hurricane season impactful. <\/p>\n

Rob Shackelford<\/a>\u00a0is a meteorologist and climate scientist at weather.com. He received his undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees from the University of Georgia, studying meteorology and experimenting with alternative hurricane forecasting tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward its typically busiest time of year, and one disturbance could become Tropical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3661,33866,36321,10036,8255,12521,11871,5711,8,33285,36322,9,28910,7,23481,36323],"class_list":["post-70164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-3661","tag-atlantic","tag-atlantic-canada","tag-atlantic-hurricane-season","tag-bermuda","tag-caribbean-sea","tag-development","tag-el-nino","tag-headlines","tag-lesser-antilles","tag-newfoundland","tag-news","tag-storms-hurricane","tag-top-stories","tag-tropical","tag-tropical-storm-dolly"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117156533016546432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}