Hurricaneville continues to watch activity in the Tropical Atlantic with not only Hurricane Danielle and Tropical Storm Earl to worry about, but also the possibility of a Fiona developing. Yes, the area of disturbed weather that we had been watching depart the coast of Africa over the past 24 to 48 hours has finally garnered the attention of those from the National Hurricane Center.

According to the latest Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook posted by the NHC at 2:00 PM EDT this afternoon, the area of disturbed weather is a tropical wave located some 450 miles to the Southeast of the Southernmost Cape Verde Islands. It has shown signs of organization and sea surface temperatures as well as upper level winds appear favorable at the moment for some development. The disturbance is presently moving off to the West at 15 to 20 miles per hour, and the NHC is giving it a 20 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm within the next 48 hours.

Looking at the latest satellite imagery out of the Eastern Atlantic, there is a very broad area of convection associated with this wave, and Brian Norcross of the Weather Channel indicated that it did have some rotation yesterday afternoon. The NHC indicated that it does have some cyclonic turning along its wave axis in the latest Tropical Weather Discussion.