The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring two systems in the Atlantic, including a tropical disturbance in the far Atlantic known as Invest 96L, and a disturbance near the Southeast United States continues to move away from Florida.

Despite some tropical activity percolating in the central Atlantic basin, it looks Ike we'll get through the second week of August without any impacts from the ongoing hurricane season. But the third week of August may become a different story.

Visible satellite imagery shows a broad area of low pressure that is producing disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity. What is Invest 96L? The National Hurricane Center uses this invest classification for an atmospheric disturbance,