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New storm-projection models suggest a tropical wave will pass several hundred miles south of the Cayman Islands later this week, at which time the system is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm.
The storm poses no immediate threat to Cayman.
In its five-day forecast released at 8am today (Tuesday, 4 Oct.) forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center, advise that the weather system, which was several hundred miles east of the Windward Islands, was expected to enter the central Caribbean by Friday 7 Oct.
“The wave is forecast to move westward at about 15 mph, crossing the Windward Islands tonight and early Wednesday,” the NHC said. “Some slow development is possible while the wave continues westward, and a tropical depression could form by late this week or this weekend over the central or western Caribbean Sea.”
The NHC has given the tropical wave a low-to-medium chance of further development within the next two-to-five days, and a US Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane was scheduled to investigate the system later this afternoon.
Further east, several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, another tropical wave continues to produce disorganised thunderstorms.
“Environmental conditions are currently conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the next day or so while moving northwestward at about 10 mph over the eastern tropical Atlantic,” the NHC said.
Meanwhile, in the Cayman area, forecasters say light-to-moderate winds, and partly cloudy skies will continue to support a 30% chance of rainfall across all three islands, due to a weak pressure gradient across the Caribbean.
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