Experts with the National Hurricane Center are watching for potential tropical development from an area of low pressure that is forecast to emerge over the Atlantic Ocean off Florida or the U.S. Southeast coast.<\/p>\n
The disturbance could develop later this week as it drifts west and interacts with a frontal boundary, experts said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a typical scenario for June when fronts from the north still make it far enough south to encounter warm enough water to transition the system into a tropical depression or tropical storm,\u201d expert Bryan Norcross wrote on his Hurricane Intel<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n As of Sunday, it has a 20% chance of developing within seven days, according to the National Hurricane Center.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Arthur, the season\u2019s first named storm, emerged off of the Texas Gulf coast in mid-June.<\/p>\n The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to remain \u201cbelow normal<\/a>,\u201d with experts at Colorado State University recently predicting a total of 11 named storms, including five hurricanes and two major hurricanes.<\/p>\n