National Hurricane Center He said it was Friday Tracking three systems in the AtlanticIncluding one that is likely to develop into a tropical depression in the coming days.

The NHC said a “broad low pressure area” was likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea in the coming day, and “gradual development” was possible thereafter.

“As the system drifts generally northward or northwestward over the center of the western Caribbean Sea, a tropical depression is likely to form late this weekend or early next week,” hurricane center forecasters said Friday morning. he said.

“Regardless of development or development, locally heavy rainfall is possible over parts of contiguous land areas of the Western Caribbean,” the NHC said.

The hurricane center gives the system a 70 percent chance of forming within the next seven days. The next named storms of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will be Patty and Rafael.

NHC follows 2 other systems in the Atlantic

The hurricane center also said it was tracking two other systems in the Atlantic, but both had a low chance of forming.

The first of these is described by the NHC as a “trough of low pressure” located near Puerto Rico that produces a “broad area of ​​showers and storms” over parts of the Greater Antilles and adjacent waters of the Atlantic and northeastern Caribbean.

“Slow development of this system is possible as it moves west-northwestward near the Greater Antilles over the next few days,” NHC forecasters said Friday morning, but after that time the system is expected to retreat into a low-pressure area. Caribbean.

“Regardless of the development, locally heavy rains are possible over the next several days from the northern Leeward Islands westward to Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, eastern Cuba and the southeastern Bahamas,” the NHC said in a statement Friday. he said.

The second system is described by the hurricane center as a “storm-force extratropical low pressure area” located approximately 400 miles west of the Western Azores. The system is producing limited thunderstorm activity, and some subtropical development is possible as the system moves eastward over the next few days, according to the NHC.

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