Little has changed with potential Caribbean Sea disturbance, hurricane forecasters say

From the National Hurricane Center Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A broad area of low pressure is expected to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea by the end of the week before it drifts north, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Forecasters said at 1 p.m.

Wednesday that the system has a 40% chance of forming into a tropical depression or storm over the weekend or early next week. Jay Grymes, a state climatologist with the LSU AgCenter, said Wednesday morning that even if the disturbance were to become a tropical cyclone, current hurricane models suggest no real threat of a Gulf Coast landfall, keeping the disturbance in the Caribbean through the next week. If it were to form, the storm would be called Patty and would mark the 16th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.



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