Forecasters Monitoring Four Tropical Disturbances in Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic

National Weather Center forecasters are monitoring four other tropical disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. (NHC)NHC

National Weather Center (NHC) forecasters are monitoring four other tropical disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

One disturbance is located approximately 300 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands near West Africa. It has an 80 percent chance of forming into a tropical depression over the next 48 hours, and it has a 90 percent chance of forming over five days. It’s moving northwest across the eastern Atlantic.