A week after Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida, the National Hurricane Center is watching another potential storm brewing in the Atlantic.

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is far from over, even if there are no active named systems. The next named storm will be Nadine. Nadine has yet to form, but the NHC is monitoring an area of ​​disturbed weather now several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, where there is a 50 percent chance of strengthening into a tropical depression over the next seven days.

Meteorologists have not released an official route for the storm because it has not yet developed, but the approximate route shows the stormIt should develop and target southeast Florida after passing through Puerto Rico.

The NHC said Monday morning's system consisted of a “well-defined low pressure area” producing “disorganized showers and thunderstorms.”

“This system is currently embedded in a dry environment and is unlikely to develop over the next few days,” the update said. “However, this system is forecast to move generally westward toward warmer waters and environmental conditions may become more favorable for gradual development by mid to late this week.”

A tropical depression could develop as the potential storm moves west-northwest toward the Leeward Islands later this week, according to the NHC.

Jeff Berardelli, WFLA-TV's chief meteorologist, said: Newsweek that while there is no immediate tropical threat, weather models show “lots of tropical waves and festering moisture for the next few weeks.”

Tropical waves are low pressure areas in the ocean. According to AccuWeather, 85 percent of tropical storm development develops as tropical waves.

Berardelli said the models reveal “hints of development” over the next 10 days.

“Another favorable climate pattern will emerge over the next few weeks,” he said.

In addition to the system being monitored by the NHC in the Atlantic, AccuWeather meteorologists are also monitoring a vortex – or large system of rotating ocean currents – that could strengthen into a stronger storm in the western Caribbean by the end of this week. The NHC has not yet begun tracking this area on its website.

AccuWeather has expressed concern about very warm ocean temperatures that could contribute to the development of tropical storms in the western Caribbean. Warm water contributed to the rapid strengthening of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Matt Benz said previously Newsweek.

“It bears watching, but the models are lukewarm on development,” Berardelli said of the western Caribbean system, adding that a cold front will move through Florida this week that “could act like a wall for any tropical systems that try “to move”. North,” at least temporarily.