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Located several hundred miles south-southwest of Cabo Verde as of 1 p.m., the system was producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms. Forecasters expect the system to move through environmental conditions conducive to development, fueling the formation of a tropical depression or storm later this week.
The Leeward Islands, including the U.S. Virgin Islands, should monitor the progress of a weather system moving across the Atlantic, as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has given the disturbance — designated Invest 95L — an 80 percent chance of development within 48 hours and a 90 percent chance within seven days.
"It is becoming likely that this will organize into a tropical storm this week," AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dan Pydynowski told USA Today Network. This storm would be named, "Jerry," according to the National Hurricane Center.
While both Humberto and Imelda have become Post Tropical, we have two new spots to keep an eye on. First spot is out in the central tropical Atlantic as the National
An area of low pressure is expected to form along the wave tonight or early Friday when it moves near the southeast Bahamas. This low is expected to become a tropical depression when it is in the vicinity of the central and northwest Bahamas late Friday or over the weekend and then track northwestward or northward over the southwestern Atlantic.