The National Hurricane Center began keeping tabs on a system off the coast of Africa expected to head toward the Caribbean with a chance of becoming the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
The new tropical wave is located a few hundred miles south of the Cape Verde Islands producing clouds and showers over the eastern tropical Atlantic, according to the NHC’s 8 a.m. Wednesday tropical outlook.
It’s amid a haze of Saharan dust that has also progressed westward, which means dry air that could prevent significant development in the next couple of days, but that could change as it moves west.
