Tropical wave near Cape Verde increasingly likely to form | Hurricane Center

A tropical wave near Cape Verde is becoming better organized and is increasingly likely to develop into a tropical depression or storm this weekend as it moves west, according to forecasters National Hurricane Center.

The system was located several hundred miles southwest of Cabo Verde as of 7 p.m. Wednesday and featured a concentrated area of ​​thunderstorms, hurricane forecasters said. It has a 60 percent chance of forming over the next week as it moves westward across the central and western Atlantic Ocean in conditions that forecasters called “unusually favorable for late June.”

Development probabilities changed rapidly with a tropical wave over the Atlantic. NHC now gives him a 60% chance of development.

Lots of overall support for depression moving into the Caribbean by early next week. And plenty of time to monitor trends. pic.twitter.com/MOxOnGNRoM

— Steve Caparotta, Ph.D. (@SteveWAFB) June 27, 2024

The system does not currently pose a threat to Louisiana. Forecasters expect the system to form this weekend several hundred kilometers east of the Windward Islands.

A tropical wave is likely heading towards the Gulf

Another tropical wave over the west-central Caribbean Sea was still producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms Wednesday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center's 7 p.m. tropical update.

The system has only a 20% chance of forming over the next week, but forecasters said it could develop later this week as it moves westward across the Caribbean and into the southwest Gulf of Mexico.

It is not currently a threat to Louisiana.

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