Tropical Activity in Gulf of Mexico Indicates Atlantic Basin is Heating Up

AccuWeather meteorologists continue to monitor an area of unsettled weather around the Bay of Campeche in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, signaling that the time to prepare for the 2021 hurricane season is now along the US Gulf Coast.

Residents in coastal Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and even the Florida Panhandle should be on the lookout for a surge of tropical moisture, if not a tropical depression or tropical storm, this weekend, given the near-term uncertainty.

In recent weeks, severe rain and flooding have wreaked havoc on some of those areas. Since May 1, certain areas, like Victoria, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, have received around 2 feet of rain.

Regardless of the level of tropical development, when tropical moisture flows northward from the Gulf of Mexico this weekend, the risk of another wave of catastrophic rain will undoubtedly grow.

Seas and surf can increase, and a plume of soaking showers and thunderstorms might travel northward and maybe westward along the Gulf Coast, even if nothing more than a poorly structured, weak tropical feature forms.

This week's tropical activity in the eastern Pacific basin might be sparked by the gyre now forming above Mexico. This week, Invest 93E, a concentrated region of unstable weather off the coast of southern Mexico, has been assigned a low chance of developing

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