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Forecasters are keeping a close watch on a system forming in the central tropical Atlantic which shows potential for development in the coming week.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami, on Friday morning, said the small area of low pressure, located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, is producing an area of disorganised showers and thunderstorms over that part of the
Atlantic.
At present, the system poses no threat to the Cayman Islands.
The NHC said, in its advisory, that environmental conditions “appear generally conducive for some gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form in the next several days, as it moves westward across the tropical Atlantic”.
As of Friday morning, the system had a 20% chance of formation in 48 hours; however, forecasters say over the next seven days the chance of formation stands at 40%.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Don continues to churn in the Atlantic Ocean, posing no threat to land.
At 11am Friday, Don was moving toward the west-northwest near 10 miles per hour.
A turn toward the northwest with a slightly faster forward speed is expected later
today. A north-northwestward to northward motion is forecast on Saturday, followed by a north-northeastward turn by late Sunday, the NHC said.
Don, which formed last week, is the fourth named storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.
The NHC said Friday that Don’s maximum sustained winds remain near 50 miles per hour with higher gusts.
“Little overall change in strength is forecast during the next day or so. Weakening is forecast to begin by Sunday morning. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles (95 km) from the center,” the NHC advisory on the storm stated.
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