Rebecca (host)
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thing that's keeping things so incredibly quiet are the high levels of wind shear across the Atlantic.
And so we are going to continue to see that across the southern Caribbean here and even across just to the north of some of our formation zones here that are typical for August.
We do have a high level of wind shear just to the south of that, though, a lower level of wind shear.
So that's an indication that if a tropical wave did get south of all of this shear,
it might be an area that could form later this month.
But right now things are looking so incredibly quiet.
We love Saharan dust here on Tracking the Tropics.
We know it doesn't technically, it's not the dust itself that keeps things quiet in the tropics.
But the presence of the dust is in combination with several factors that keep things quiet in the tropics.
And look at this late season plume.
That is healthy.
That looks like a late May, June plume of Saharan dust.
if you're ever looking at maps.
It is pretty rare that this late in the season we have such a healthy plume of Saharan dust breaking off from the coastline of Africa and moving across the Atlantic and really just persistent all the way to the ABC Islands here and the Windward and Leeward Islands as well.
It does get into South Florida, doesn't quite make it to Tampa,
But man, that is really good looking Saharan dust.
That's something we really, really like to see.
And of course, more so, we really like to see things quiet, even more so than the Saharan dust.
And things have been quiet.
Joining us right now is meteorologist Justin Mosley for a deep dive on exactly why things have been so quiet.
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