The National Hurricane Center continues to keep tabs on a tropical wave that has a chance to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm while also tracking Tropical Storm Don in the Atlantic.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical advisory, the wave was located a few hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands interacting with the Intertropical Convergence Zone where weather systems from the northern and southern hemisphere mix amid low pressure around the equator.
“The combination of these features is producing an elongated area of showers and thunderstorms over the eastern and central tropical Atlantic,” the NHC said. “While dry air to the north may prevent significant organization during the next couple of days,environmental conditions could become more conducive for some development this weekend as the system moves westward across the central tropical Atlantic.”
