A tropical wave drifting in the Atlantic that hurricane forecasters have tracked for days could become the next named tropical storm over the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center .

The disturbance is one of three areas forecasters were tracking as of Friday morning in addition to Hurricane Erin, the once formidable storm that has since weakened to a Category 1 hurricane. Erin is expected to weaken into a post-tropical storm in the coming days.

Despite weakening, Erin will continue to produce life-threatening rip currents in the Eastern U.S., Atlantic Canada and the Bahamas for the next few days as it continues to move north.

Disturbance 1

A tropical wave, currently located about 100 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands, appeared to be roughly following

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