Hurricane hunters plan to investigate a new system on the National Hurricane Center's (NHC) radar on Thursday afternoon.

Newsweek reached out to the NHC by email for comment.

Why It Matters

The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1 and runs through November 30. The NHC is tracking two systems in the Atlantic basin. One, Tropical Storm Erin, is set to become a hurricane later this week as it moves westward across the Atlantic toward the U.S.

The other is defined as a "broad area of low pressure" in the Bay of Campeche that has a low chance of strengthening into a tropical storm in the coming days. This is the system hurricane hunters will investigate.

What To Know

"We are monitoring a broad area of low pressure over the Bay of Campeche that has a low chance of formation during th

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