Tropics are relatively quiet

TL;DR: Depression in the West Pacific is about it, remnants of Juliette may bring rain to northwestern Mexico and the US southwest.

Satellite image of the Atlantic and East Pacific with weather systems, including Tropical Depression Twenty and Tropical Storm Fernand.

Moving from east to west, the Atlantic is quiet again. Fernand is post-tropical, and the wave coming off of Africa has little chance of development over the next week.

The East Pacific area has the remnants of Juliette, also post-tropical, that should drift over the northern Baja coast and bring rain to the Southwest:

Satellite image showing Tropical Weather Outlook in the West Pacific with areas marked for potential tropical depressions and storms, including the remnants of Juliette impacting northwestern Mexico and the US southwest.

And in the West Pacific, Tropical Depression Twenty formed this morning. may become a tropical storm over the next 24 hours as it moves south of Hainan Island (China) and makes landfall in Vietnam. The big problem will be how much rain thd disorganized but wet storm dumps on areas impacted by Kaijiki earlier this week

Satellite imagery of the West Pacific showing Tropical Depression Twenty near Hainan Island, with weather patterns depicted across nearby regions.

Here is a comparison of the tracks. Although TD20 will probably be a tropical depression at that point, rain and wind intensity rarely correlated, and a slow moving, wet tropical depression or tropical storm often dumps more rain than an intense cyclone.

Map showing the track comparison of Tropical Depression Twenty and Typhoon Kaijiki, with forecast points and locations in Southeast Asia.

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