National Hurricane Center monitors “disturbance” in the Atlantic as hurricane season looms

The National Hurricane Center began monitoring a large area of disturbed weather in the Atlantic on Sunday. 

The disturbance extends a couple hundreds miles northeast of the Bahamas, according to NHC forecasters. It’s expected to move generally north-northeastward over the southwestern Atlantic at 5 to 10 mph during the next couple of days. 

The disturbance, which began a little more than a week before the start of Atlantic hurricane season, has just a 10% chance of becoming a formation in the next 48 hours, NHC experts said Sunday morning. Hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov. 30. 

In 2022, Agatha became the first hurricane of the season. It formed in late May, shortly before the official start of…