JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea during the next day or so, according to the National Hurricane Center. There’s a 30% chance of development over the next 48 hours and a 70% chance in the next 7 days.
Gradual development is possible thereafter, and a tropical depression is likely to form late this weekend or early next week while the system drifts generally northward or northwestward over the central or western Caribbean Sea. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains are possible over portions of the adjacent land areas of the western Caribbean.
Further east of that system, a trough of low pressure located near Puerto Rico is producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms over portions of the Greater Antilles and the adjacent waters of the Atlantic and the northeastern Caribbean.
Slow development of this system is possible during the next few days as it moves west-northwestward near the Greater Antilles. After that time, this system is expected to be absorbed into the low pressure area over the Caribbean.
Regardless of development, locally heavy rains are possible during the next several days from the northern Leeward Islands westward across
Puerto Rico and Hispaniola to eastern Cuba and the southeastern Bahamas.
Formation chance through 48 hours is 10%.
