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 "standfirst": "Strong tropical wave emerged off African coast and looks healthy.  However, tough sledding ahead into marginally favorable Atlantic tropical basin.",
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 "teaser_html": "<p>The long-awaited emergence of the strong tropical wave (soon to be Invest 96L) into the Atlantic Ocean, which is plenty warm for storm or hurricane development.  However, as we have observed over the past several weeks, tropical waves look healthy and ambitious/eager to \u201ccatch fire\u201d but then \u201cblow a tire\u201d or poof out after encounter very dry (Saharan) air layers, dust, and vertical wind shear.</p><p>So far so good for this rather large circulation.  In any other non-El Ni\u00f1o summer, we\u2019d probably be seeing a hurricane in the next few days.  But, this does not look likely as the tropical wave will probably struggle until it escapes the Main Development Region in 5-6 days.</p>",
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