PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – A tropical wave producing thunderstorms was strengthening on Saturday afternoon in the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center Miami’s tropical weather outlook.
The tropical wave, several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles, has the potential to strengthen into a tropical depression as it moves across the western Caribbean Sea.
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The center’s meteorologists forecasted at 2 p.m. that the disturbance was going to “move westward and reach the Lesser Antilles on Monday” before moving “across the eastern and central Caribbean” through the middle of the week.
The meteorologists estimated a 40% formation chance. It had been at 50% on Saturday morning.
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The center was also monitoring a broad area of low pressure in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico that was also producing some disorganized showers and thunderstorms along and just offshore the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
“This system is expected to linger near the coast through much of next week, and some slow development is possible if it meanders offshore ... heavy rains could cause some flash flooding across portions of coastal Louisiana and the upper Texas coast during the next few days,” the meteorologists warned.
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In the eastern tropical Atlantic, the was another tropical wave just to the west of the Cabo Verde Islands. NHC meteorologists no longer expected development.
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Local 10 News Weather Authority’s Michael Lowry, a hurricane specialist and storm surge expert, and Betty Davis, the chief meteorologist, were both tracking the tropics.