Though the Atlantic hurricane season starts in June, usually the most active part of the season does not begin until at least August. This year seems to be following that pattern. Currently the National Hurricane Center is tracking three systems: Tropical Storm Ernesto, a tropical low off of Florida, and a newly emerged system forming off of Africa. The latter has a 30% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours. All three of these storms can be seen in the most recent GOES-13 full hemisphere scan from August 3, 2012 at 1445z.
NOAA
2012-08-03
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