A broad low pressure system near the Cape Verde Islands has a 50% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Tuesday.

The Cape Verde Archipelago sits in a deep-sea basin (the Cape Verde Basin) with depths of 3,000 to 4,000 meters. Here, regular tidal flows are disrupted by seamounts and island slopes, generating ...

The islands of Cape Verde can go for very long stretches without rain. In the 1940s, around 45,000 people — equivalent to the entire population of Santo Antão today — died as a result of ...

But last month, for the first time ever, the NOAA hurricane hunters “hunted” a potential storm all the way across the Atlantic, near the Cape Verde Islands, August 9-12 on a groundbreaking ...