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Staying unsettled this week - with above average storm chances

By: Kate Wentzel

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — High heat and humidity, along with daily showers and storms expected daily this week.

Feels like temps will peak in the triple digits so stay hydrated, stay in the air conditioning, and limit your outdoor activities especially during the peak heating of the day.

Afternoon storms will help to cool temps down - but before that it will be quiet steamy.

The best chance for widespread showers & storms this week will be Tuesday and Wednesday with a tropical wave moving in off the ocean

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A disturbance in the Atlantic has a high chance of becoming "Emily" this week but is likely to curve well east of Bermuda. A tropical depression is likely to form during the early part of this week, the National Hurricane Center said.

Labeled ALC 96, the disturbance has a 70% chance of cyclone formation within 48 hours and 80% in seven days.

Shower and thunderstorm activity has become a little more concentrated in association with a broad area of low pressure about 700 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. The system is expected to move northwestward at about 15 mph within the next day or so, and then turn northward over central subtropical Atlantic by late Monday or Tuesday.

A disturbance off the the Carolina Coast has a 30% chance of cyclone formation in the next 48 hours and seven days. Shower and thunderstorm activity is showing some signs or organization because of a trough of low pressure and is about 100 miles south of Wilmington, North Carolina. Strengthening is forecast over the next day or two as the system gradually accelerates east-northeastward into the northwestern Atlantic ocean. The system will then merge with a frontal boundary and will not be a threat to land.