ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center expects a tropical wave to soon form off the coast of Africa in the far eastern Atlantic with a chance it could form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
In the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT Thursday tropical outlook, forecasters show the system moving across the Atlantic and parked off the Leeward Islands headed into the Caribbean by next week.
“Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for gradual development of this system while it moves generally westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic during the early to middle part of next week,” according to the outlook.
