ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Monday forecast a system in the Atlantic could develop into a tropical depression or storm as soon as this morning while tracking two other Atlantic systems.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the system dubbed Invest 97 has persistent shower and thunderstorm among signs of organization around a well-defined area of low pressure just west of the Cape Verde Islands.

“If these structural trends continue, the system is likely to become a tropical depression or storm, possibly as soon as later this morning,” forecasters said.

If it does it could become Tropical Depression Five or if powerful enough, Tropical Storm Erin.

Long-term models have the system continuing west and potentially developing into the season’s first hurricane later i

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