2 weeks Ago By Richard Tribou
The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t officially start until June 1, but the National Hurricane Center on Monday began tracking the first system of the season with just the smallest of chances to develop. The nontropical area of low pressure was located about 700 miles northeast of the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands producing gale-force winds and a large are of showers and thunderstorms, according to the NHC’s 2 p.m.
tropical outlook. “Additional development of this low is not expected as it moves northward to northwestward into an environment of strong upper-level winds and dry air tonight and Tuesday,” the outlook reads. The NHC gives it a 10% chance to develop into a tropical depression or storm in the next two to seven days.
The NHC said no additional special tropical weather outlooks were scheduled for the system unless conditions worsen. Normal tropical weather outlooks will begin on May 15 with special outlooks posted as necessary, the NHC stated..
