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The tropical Atlantic begins to become more active after a few weeks of rest.
The National Hurricane Center tracks three tropical waves Wednesday morning, and two of them have the potential to turn into something more.
The most recent on the shelf is a tropical wave in the central Atlantic located roughly halfway between the Lesser Antilles and the west coast of Africa.
It generated a large area of rain and storms but did not appear organized on Wednesday morning, the hurricane center said.
It is possible that it will develop slowly at the end of the weekend and early next week when it moves east of the Lesser Antilles.
It has a 20 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression within the next five days.
A second wave has a 30% chance of becoming a depression, but it is more distant. The center of the hurricane is expected to move off the west coast of Africa and into the eastern Atlantic on Thursday evening.
It will have more favorable conditions and could develop slowly heading west at around 15 mph, the hurricane center said.
A third tropical wave, located in the eastern Atlantic, has no chance of developing on Wednesday, but could bring heavy rain and gusty winds to parts of the Cabo Verde islands today.
The tropical Atlantic has been calm since Elsa disappeared on July 9. Elsa was a hurricane briefly and made landfall as a tropical storm in the Big Bend area of Florida on July 7.
There have been four other named storms so far.
NOAA plans to update its hurricane outlook for the Atlantic later today.
The first outlook, released in late May, suggested there could be 13 to 20 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes and three to five major hurricanes.
An average season, according to NOAA, has 14 named storms, seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes.
Hurricane season officially ends on November 30.
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