TAMPA - Right on cue with the start of August, the tropics are showing signs of life with a few areas we’re watching in the Atlantic Basin.

One is several hundred miles off the SE coast, where an area of low pressure is expected to form in the next few days along a stationary boundary. This is actually the same front that helped spin up Dexter earlier this week.

There is a 10% chance of development in the next 2 days and 40% chance in the next 7 days. A tropical depression could form as the low drifts west then northwest.

Model trends lean towards low pressure forming offshore of South Carolina then drifting toward the North Carolina coast into this weekend.

Tropical downpours and an unsettled pattern will be in place from Florida to the Carolinas through the weekend.

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