The system is in the Central American Gyre — a large low-pressure area that forms over Central America in the spring and fall. It creates storms and spin from the eastern Pacific into the Caribbean, and can unleash hurricanes and tropical storms near the end of hurricane season.

As tropical activity in the Atlantic Ocean quiets down again, attention is shifting back to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, where there are increasing signs of atmospheric conditions favorable for the development of possibly the next named storm sometime next week.