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Forecasters are projecting a broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest of Cabo Verde Islands to develop into a tropical depression or storm over the next few days.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami, in its Sunday morning advisory, said the system is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
At its present location, the system does not pose a threat to the Cayman Islands, however residents should monitor the system’s development.
The NHC said the system has become less organized since Saturday. Despite this, it said the overall environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive for development.
“A tropical depression or tropical storm is still likely to form within the next few days while the system moves westward or west-northwestward across the central and western tropical Atlantic,” the NHC advisory said.
The system, forecasters said, has a high chance of development within 48 hours, at 60%, and a 90% chance of formation through the next seven days.
“In anticipation of this system developing, a gale warning has been issued. Seas will build to over 12 feet by Monday morning,” forecasters said.
Meanwhile tropical depression Sean, currently located 1,110 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands, is forecast to weaken and become a remnant low later Sunday.
It is then expected to dissipate by late Monday.
The depression is moving toward the west-northwest near 9 mph (15 km/h), and this general motion is expected to continue through Sunday night.
A turn toward the west is expected on Monday.
Maximum sustained winds are near 35 miles per hour with higher gusts.
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