TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The National Hurricane Center is continuing to monitor a tropical wave in the central Atlantic, as it makes its way westward.
In a Sunday morning update, the system is showing signs of organization as it approaches the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean Sea.
With slow development possible, the wave has a 10% chance of development over the next 48 hours and a 40% chance over the next seven days.
According to the NHC, the system is expected to move into the western Caribbean Sea, with a chance for a tropical depression to form.
In the far eastern Atlantic, there is a 20% chance of a wave developing after moving off the African coast with the possibility of slow development, but it doesn't appear that it will impact the United States.
"There are a couple of areas we are watching in the tropics. One in the northern Gulf isn't expected to strengthen as it brings rain to the Texas coast. It will linger through next week, but will not impact Florida. This system has a 20% chance of development through the end of next week," Max Defender 8 Meteorologist Eric Stone said.
"A more impressive tropical wave in the south-central Atlantic is expected to develop into a depression sometime next week as it moves through the Caribbean. Forecast models take this system into the Gulf and it is expected to become the next named storm, but it appears to have little or no impact on our weather. This system has a 40% chance of development over the next seven days," he added.
"A third tropical wave is located southwest of the Cape Verde Islands and is not expected to develop any further as conditions will not be conducive for development."
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