Hurricane center watches tropical disturbance off North Carolina
The system comes during the start of August, when forecasters expect the so-far unremarkable Atlantic hurricane season to ramp up in an uptick in activity across the basin.
"We're already seeing longer-range forecast models start to perk up," WPLG-TV hurricane expert Michael Lowry previously told USA TODAY. "The deep Atlantic tropical waves coming from Africa have been peppier this week, and July 24's long-range forecast models jumped from a generally quiet next 15 days to a much busier look for the first part of August."
The center is also tracking three tropical waves in the Caribbean not currently forecast to be a threat. One is moving west near the Caribbean to northeastern Venezuela, another is moving west in central Caribbean and the other moving west in the northwest Caribbean near Honduras.
When is hurricane season?
Atlantic hurricane season is from June 1 to Nov. 30 every year, with the most activity between August and October.
Should another weather system develop into a tropical storm, the system would be named Dexter, which is next on the list of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season names (see below).
Contributing: Jennifer Sangalang and Doyle Rice, USA TODAY NETWORK
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