An area of low pressure is expected to form Saturday, August 2 near the coast of the Carolinas with a one-in-five likelihood of becoming a cyclone over the span of a week, hurricane experts say.
The "area of disturbance" is forecasted to form along a frontal system off of the southeastern coast of the United States, according to a Aug. 2 tropics advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at 8 a.m. ET. The system is slowly moving east northeastward with minimal development possible through early next week.
The center forecasted a low 10 percent chance at forming through the next 48 hours and a 20 percent chance through the next seven days.
The system comes during the start of August, when forecasters expect the so-far unremarkable Atlantic hurricane season to ramp up in an uptick in activity across the basin.
"We’re already seeing longer-range forecast models start to perk up," WPLG-TV hurricane expert Michael Lowry previously told USA TODAY. "The deep Atlantic tropical waves coming from Africa have been peppier this week, and July 24's long-range forecast models jumped from a generally quiet next 15 days to a much busier look for the first part of August."
