Tropical Storm Paulette has formed from a depression in the central Atlantic ocean.
The forecast so far has it staying away from land. We will have to wait until the end of the week to see how much of a turn to the north it is expected to make.
Tropical Depression 18, which is in line to become René, is between the west coast of Africa and the Cape Verde islands. After bringing tropical weather to those islands, it appears likely to steer northward into the Atlantic as a hurricane and not bother the western hemisphere.
