Hurricane activity is expected to pick up in the weeks ahead, as forecasters monitor conditions that could fuel a busy back half of the season in September and October.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, giving it a 70 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next week.

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It’s too early to say exactly where the potential storm would go, but people living in the Caribbean Islands should keep a close eye on developments, as it may approach next week.

If it forms, it would become the seventh named storm so far this season, which technically runs through November. Of the six storms that have already formed, just one strengthened into a hurricane – Erin – whose journey spanned nearly 7,000 miles across the Atla

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