Current Snapshot

The Pacific Disaster Center’s (PDC Global) Wednesday, September 17, 2025, Tropical Cyclone Activity Report…for the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of America

Current Tropical Cyclones:

Tropical Cyclone 07L (Gabrielle)…is located about 990 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands

Atlantic Ocean:

Tropical Cyclone 07L (Gabrielle)

CENTER OF GABRIELLE RE-FORMS NORTH OF THE PREVIOUS ADVISORY POSITION

According to the NHC advisory number 3

Gabrielle is moving toward the northwest near 14 mph (22 km/h), and a northwest or west-northwest motion is expected to continue over the next few days. Satellite data indicate that the maximum sustained winds have increased to near 50 mph (85 km/h) with higher gusts. Little change in strength is forecast during the next 48 hours, but some gradual intensification is forecast over the weekend. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles (335 km) from the center, primarily in the eastern semicircle of the storm. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1005 mb (29.68 inches).

East-Central Tropical Atlantic:

>>> A tropical wave located near the Cabo Verde Islands is producing an area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.

Environmental conditions are only marginally conducive, and any development of this system should be slow to occur while it moves westward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central portion of the tropical Atlantic.

Regardless of development, this system will continue to bring areas of heavy rain across the Cabo Verde Islands through Thursday.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…10 percent
* Formation chance through 7 days…low…20 percent

Eastern Tropical Atlantic:

>>> A tropical wave is forecast to move off the coast of west Africa by Friday. Some slow development of this system is possible as it moves west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic this weekend into early next week.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent
* Formation chance through 7 days…low…20 percent