Updated at 9:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

The tropical disturbance we've been following in the central tropical Atlantic has been upgraded to Tropical Depression Seven. The system is still fighting the dust and dry air, but the National Hurricane Center deemed its circulation sufficiently well-developed to classify the system a depression. You can see the dusty air impacting the west side of the elongated circulation.

The system is expected to eventually push off the hostile conditions and develop into Tropical Storm Gabrielle as soon as later today, but it has some work to do.

There is a strong consensus among the computer forecast models that the system will turn north well before it gets to the Caribbean islands. Extra high surf on the north and east sides of the islands i

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