New on the National Hurricane Center's radar are the increasing odds for a tropical depression or storm forming in the Atlantic over the next week. The basin is historically approaching its most active period of the year.

A tropical wave is located just southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands, or about 400 miles off the west coast of Africa. Conditions appear favorable for further development, and a tropical depression will likely form by the middle to end of next week as the system moves west-northwest at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic. 

NHC gives this system a 30% chance of formation within 48 hours and an 80% chance within the next seven days. 

The new tropical activity comes as the Atlantic has remained quiet - but that could soon all change.

Fun fact: Mentions of "climate crisis" in corporate media have all but imploded. Why? Because the PR propaganda campaigns aren't needed when Democrats and their dark-money-funded NGOs aren't pushing "green" bills or fundraising.