The National Hurricane Center on Thursday forecast the season’s next tropical depression or storm was likely to form from a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the system located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands had showers and thunderstorms that had begun to consolidate and become better organized.

“Environmental conditions are conducive for development of this system during the next several days, and a tropical depression is likely to form late this week or this weekend over central tropical Atlantic while moving slowly toward the west-northwest at 5 to 10 mph,” forecasters said. “The system is likely to move faster toward the west or west-northwest thereafter and reach the waters east of the Lesser Antilles b

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