ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center forecast an increased chance that a tropical depression or storm could form in the Atlantic and potentially threaten Florida in the next five days.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, forecasters predict a large non-tropical low pressure system will develop on Sunday over the northeastern Caribbean Sea and southwestern Atlantic near Puerto Rico.
“The system is initially expected to be very broad and disorganized,” forecasters said. “However, it could begin to acquire subtropical or tropical characteristics during the early part of next week, and a subtropical or tropical depression could form during the early to middle portion of next week while the system moves generally westward to west-northwestward over the southwestern Atlantic.”
