The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased the odds that a tropical wave moving across the Atlantic could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm while Tropical Storm Gabrielle looked to intensify into the season’s second hurricane.

Gabrielle is expected to move well clear of Bermuda in the open Atlantic, but where the new system could threaten remains in question.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad tropical wave was in the central tropical Atlantic west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.

“Although environmental conditions are not favorable for initial development of this system over the next day or two, these conditions should gradually become more favorable for development by the middle to latter part of this

week, and a tropical depression coul

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