Atlantic remains extremely active in addition to Dorian
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While Dorian will remain the most potent feature on the tropical weather maps into late week, AccuWeather forecasters are monitoring other areas in the Atlantic basin in addition to Gabrielle.
The Atlantic has become a three-ring circus of tropical activity with Dorian being the main focus and other areas brewing to the right over the central and eastern part of the main ocean.
Tropical Depression Seven formed in the western Gulf of Mexico shortly before 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday. By 2 p.m. EDT, it had strengthened into Tropical Storm Fernand, the sixth named storm of the season.
Fernand made landfall in northeastern Mexico as a tropical storm at approximately 11:35 a.m. CDT Wednesday. Fernand has since dissipated over northeast Mexico.
Rain from Fernand totaled 3.18 inches in Brownsville, Texas, over the last four days, just over half of the normal rainfall for the month of September (5.92 inches).
On Tuesday afternoon, another tropical disturbance became Tropical Depression Eight in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
The depression strengthened to Tropical Storm Gabrielle on Tuesday night. This batch of showers and thunderstorms originally emerged from the western coast of Africa late last week.
Gabrielle became poorly organized early Friday morning and weakened to a tropical rainstorm. It is possible Gabrielle regenerates into a tropical depression or storm this weekend into next week.
Gabrielle is forecast to drift northwestward across the tropical Atlantic through the end of the week and into the weekend and poses no immediate threat to land.
Gabrielle may only be of concern for shipping over the middle of the Atlantic into the middle of next week.
Another area being monitored for tropical development has been a persistent batch of showers and thunderstorms about 400 hundred miles northeast of Bermuda. This has about a 10% chance of development this week.
A batch of showers and thunderstorms that moved off the coast of Africa at midweek has a 70% chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm into this weekend.
Showers and thunderstorms a few hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is also being watched.
Meanwhile, there is also activity in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean with Hurricane Juliette and Tropical Storm Akoni southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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