The National Hurricane Center on Monday continued to give high chances that a system in the Atlantic will develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm and threaten the Caribbean.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure associated with a low-altitude tropical wave dubbed Invest 95L had a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the central tropical Atlantic.

“Environmental conditions appear generally conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression is likely to form within the next few days while it moves quickly west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic, approaching the northern Leeward Islands by the latter part of the week,” forecasters said.

The NHC gave it a 50% chance to develop i

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