While the remnants of Gabrielle impact the Azores and Humberto continues to crawl north of the Caribbean, slowly becoming better organized, we shift our attention to Invest 94L. This is the tropical disturbance that has produced numerous showers and thunderstorm activity over Puerto Rico, and on Thursday, left a very wet day across the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

The system will continue to move slowly over Hispaniola. Still, its center is forecast to merge north of Hispaniola and once over Turks and Caicos and the southern portion of the Bahamas, which is flat territory with little friction, is likely to become Imelda. It should become better organized by Friday, but it can be named as late as Saturday.

Regardless, we are closely monitoring this system, as it can directly impact parts

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