Rebecca (host)
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first heard Aug 2026
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So we've got one kind of halfway across the Atlantic, one moving past the ABC Islands right here, and then one a little bit closer to Central America, which is very typical for this time of the year.
The rainy season in Panama, the rainy season in Costa Rica and Guatemala, where basically a tropical wave sits over Central America for August and most of September.
It starts to break a little in October, and they finally get back to their more beautiful weather in November and December and January across Central America there.
But no rotation with those thunderstorms.
That is the wettest tropical wave that we have out there to track right now.
But once again, that is not saying much because the other two are just really pathetic looking if you were looking for any type of development.
There's barely even clouds associated with this tropical wave.
And we've got some showers and thunderstorms out ahead and behind this one.
But once again, nothing exciting to watch whatsoever.
And this is about the time of the year that we would start watching storms, thunderstorms rolling off the coastline of Africa there for any signs that they would start to develop or start to rotate.
But unfortunately for tropical development and fortunately for us, the wind shear is just so incredibly high right now and we've got a lot of dry air over the open Atlantic that it's really difficult for those to get going.
Typically in August, this is when we start to see development right across the middle of the Atlantic, just like we were talking about.
Thunderstorms rolling off the coastline of Africa, percolating over that warm water.
If they don't have shear, they start some rotation and development.
And this is the prime development region for a typical August.
Now, what's not typical is how strong El Nino is this year.
And so El Nino is driving those high level wind shears right across the middle of the open Atlantic.
So where we would typically see the most likely areas of development in August, we have the highest levels of wind shear.
And so what that means is this August, we should look outside the main development regions where the shear is a little lower for the potential for some formation or development.
If you remember our previous El Nino year, just a couple years ago, we had a lot of open development a little bit further north than our typical formation zones.
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