re: "The switch has been flipped in the Atlantic Basin."

From NASA's FB page

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ATLANTIC OCEAN - System 98L Better Organized
Satellite images indicate that the large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave centered about 500 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is gradually becoming better organized.
Conditions appear to be favorable for a tropical depression to form during the next couple of days while the system moves toward the west-northwest and then northwest toward the open waters of the central Atlantic.
When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over developing System 98L on Aug. 15 the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder known as the AIRS instrument looked at the storm in infrared light. Infrared light provides temperature data, which is important in seeing the height and power of the thunderstorms that make up a tropical cyclone. The colder the cloud tops, the higher they are in the atmosphere, and the stronger the convection or uplift of air (and evaporation, condensation and thunderstorm development). AIRS data showed some cloud top temperatures as cold as 220 kelvin, -63F/-53C indicating strong storms high in the troposphere.
The National Hurricane Center gives System 98L a high chance to become a tropical depression in the next 2 days.

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Local meteorologist last night was saying there is a high pressure out in the atlantic that is going to turn the system that is out there right now. Said it should not even reach the US.

Now, there is another wave that just came off the African coast that they will begin to watch.