A monitored low-pressure system in the Atlantic reached a 70% chance of development over the next seven days and is likely to become a tropical depression in the latter half of this week.
The National Hurricane Center of the United States (NHC for its acronym in English) raised the estimate in its advisory at 8:00 p.m. this Monday.
The probability of formation over the next 48 hours has also increased to 30%, although it is still considered low.
The low-pressure area was located about 500 miles —approximately 805 kilometers— southwest of the Cape Verde Islands and was producing an extensive area of rain and thunderstorms.
The environmental conditions could gradually become more favorable for your organization over the next two days.
The system will move westward and west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic.
The new report represents another increase in just a few hours. In the notice from 2:00 p.m. this Monday, the NHC had placed the probability of development at 60% over the next seven days and at 20% for the following 48 hours.
Although the system is generally moving westward, there is still no defined trajectory or confirmed threat to Cuba or the rest of the Caribbean.
Its potential intensity and path will depend on how much it manages to organize itself over the next few days.
The NHC is also monitoring a tropical wave located approximately 900 miles —about 1,448 kilometers— east of the Windward Islands.
The phenomenon generates scattered rain and storms and maintains a development probability of 10%, both in 48 hours and over the course of seven days.
That wave will move quickly toward the west, but conditions could become less favorable for its organization as it approaches the Lesser Antilles by the end of the week.
The third system under observation is a low-pressure trough located several hundred miles northeast of Bermuda.
It has a 10% chance of development in both time frames and is moving quickly to the east.
Its arrival in colder waters would put an end to its chances of development on Thursday.
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