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Local and regional forecasters are monitoring a tropical disturbance in the eastern Caribbean that is expected to arrive south of the Cayman Islands by the end of the week.
This system poses no immediate threat the Cayman Islands.
According to the US-based National Hurricane Center, the tropical disturbance has a 60% chance of developing into a tropical depression within the next seven days.
As of 5pm Monday, the system was producing disorganised showers and thunderstorms, a couple hundred miles south of Puerto Rico, while travelling along a general west-south-westerly direction.
“This system is expected to move westward during the next several days, and environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development,” advised the NHC, in its afternoon forecast. “A tropical depression could form later this week when the system reaches the central or southwestern Caribbean Sea.”
Further north, above the Bahamas, another weaker system is drifting northeasterly towards the Atlantic Ocean.
The system has a low 10% chance of further development within the next week.
“This system is moving into an area of strong upper-level winds and dry air, and the chances of it becoming a short-lived tropical storm are decreasing,” the NHC said.
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