A disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Africa has little chance of developing into a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center said Monday morning.
The first named tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Saturday. It was west of Key West, Fla., and moving southeast toward Cuba.
No two tropical storms or hurricanes are exactly alike, but every system has the same basic structure that meteorologists analyze when creating life-saving forecasts for tropical systems. Some meteorological terminology is well-known, such as the eye of a hurricane, but tropical cyclones have many moving parts that bring different dangers when they make landfall. A tropical cyclone is a broad term that encompasses tropical storms, hurricanes, typhoons and any form of tropical system around the w