A tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean has a 60% chance of forming within 48 hours, the National Hurricane Center said Monday morning.
As of 7 a.m. Monday, the disturbance – a tropical wave and a wide area of low pressure – was about 600 miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, forecasters said. It is “very poorly organized,” forecasters said, moving west at 10 to 15 mph across the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
A tropical depression could occur the next day or two from this disturbance, proponents said.
Conditions are expected to be less conducive to development by the end of the week as it approaches the Leeward Islands, the National Weather Service in Slidell said.
It’s too early to say if this system will have any impact on Louisiana, forecasters said, but they encourage residents to consider hurricane plans when the peak of the hurricane season arrives.
The area shaded in orange on the graphic tones where a storm could develop. It indicates no trace, which is generally released by the National Hurricane Center once a disturbance has become a tropical depression or is about to be a depression.
If this system intensifies into a tropical storm, it would probably be called Josephine.
No other storms are expected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean in the next 48 hours.
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Carlie Kollath Wells is a morning reporter for NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans attorney.
