TAMPA - A strong tropical wave (now Invest 97L) moving off Africa will likely become the first hurricane (Erin) in the Atlantic this season.

This will be entering a more favorable environment for development next week and will likely become a named storm within the orange-shaded region.

As always, when a system is that far away, there is a large model spread on where it will go in the long term.

Big picture view:

While most long-range weather models keep this system out of the Caribbean, it's too early to confidently predict where it may go from there.

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For now, this disturbance is over 3,000 miles away from our coastline and the United States will have over a week to monitor its progress.

For now, we will just watch i

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