Tracking the tropics: AM Sept. 15. 2025

FOX 35 Storm Team Meteorologist Brooks Garner gives us a quick look at the latest developments in the tropics as we continue to track a tropical wave just off the coast of western Africa.

Tropical wave over the Central Tropical Atlantic

What we know:

A broad area of low pressure has formed roughly midway between the Windward Islands and the coast of West Africa.

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This system has become better organized since Sunday and is expected to move through a favorable environment for further development.

Forecasters with the NHC say a tropical depression or tropical storm is likely to form by the middle to latter part of this week as the system moves west-northwestward at 10–15 mph over the Central Tropical Atlantic.

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