Important Takeaways:

• America is back on tropical-storm alert with a giant ‘depression’ in the Atlantic threatening to spawn Hurricane Rafael.
• With the nation still reeling from the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, tropical ocean waters are once again starting to simmer.
• Three developments over tropical waters have meteorologists cautiously watching for the next big storm.
• Sub-tropical Storm Patty is heading east towards Europe while over the weekend, a more powerful system and its twin erupted in the Caribbean.
• AccuWeather senior meteorologist Alan Reppert said: “We are sounding the alarm for a brewing tropical threat that could bring direct impacts to the Gulf Coast of the United States late this week into next weekend.
• “The brewing tropical storm is expected to make a north-eastward turn across Jamaica and Cuba, bringing heavy downpours and gusty winds to those islands.
• “It is not out of the question it becomes a hurricane in the Caribbean.”
• Warm ocean temperatures late in the season will help boost the formation of the next storm.
• Torrential downpours and strong winds threaten Cuba and Jamaica before heading north towards the US.
• It comes just weeks after Helene and Milton hit Florida causing damage running to hundreds of billions of dollars.

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