A new tropical disturbance is flexing its muscles in the far eastern Atlantic, several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Right now, it’s just a broad cluster of thunderstorms tangled in pockets of spin, but the environment around it is becoming more favorable for development. Warm sea-surface temperatures, lighter winds aloft, and steady moisture are helping the system breathe. The National Hurricane Center is giving it a high chance of development over the next week, with odds climbing that this could soon become Tropical Depression Seven, and if it strengthens further, it will earn the name Gabrielle.

For now, the system is moving west-northwest at around 10 to 15 miles per hour, a path that typically keeps it on a collision course with the open Atlantic. But the steeri

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