Hurricane center keeps odds at 40% Caribbean system will develop
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center is keeping track Tuesday of a system that could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the next few days.
“Gradual development is possible thereafter, and a tropical depression could form late this week or over the weekend while the system begins to drift northward or northeastward toward the central Caribbean Sea,” forecasters said.
The NHC gives it a 40% chance to develop in the next seven days, the same percentage forecast on Monday, but up from the weekend.
If it were to gain enough steam, it could become Tropical Storm Patty.
The potential system would come in the final month of the official hurricane season, which runs from June 1-Nov. 30.
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has so far seen 15 named storms, 10 of which have become hurricanes.
Three of those struck Florida.
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