Current Snapshot

The Pacific Disaster Center’s (PDC Global) Friday, September 22, 2023, Tropical Cyclone Activity Report…for the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and adjacent Seas

Current Tropical Cyclones:

Northeast Pacific Ocean:

>>> Central East Pacific…

Invest 97E

Showers and thunderstorms have changed little in organization in association with a broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.

Gradual development of the disturbance is likely, and a tropical depression is expected to form late this weekend or early next week while the system moves generally westward across the central and western parts of the eastern Pacific basin.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…60 percent
* Formation chance through 7 days…high…80 percent

Central North Pacific:

>>> Far east-southeast of the Main Hawaiian Islands… 

Invest 91C

A weak area of low pressure located more than 700 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii continues to have sporadic disorganized thunderstorms displaced to the east. Strong
upper-level winds will likely continue to inhibit any significant
development of this system as it moves westward at around 10 mph.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent
* Formation chance through 7 days…low…near 0 percent

>>> Central East Pacific…

Invest 97E

Showers and thunderstorms have changed little in organization in association with a broad area of low pressure located about 2700 miles east-southeast of the Hilo, Hawaii. Gradual development of the disturbance is likely, and a tropical depression is expected to form late this weekend or early next week while the system moves generally westward across the central and western parts of the
eastern Pacific basin. This system may potentially cross into the central Pacific basin around the middle of next week.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…60 percent
* Formation chance through 7 days…high…80 percent

Elsewhere, no tropical cyclones are expected during the next 7 days.

Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and adjacent Seas:

There’s no tropical cyclones, nor any areas of disturbed weather under investigation by the JTWC at the time of this writing