NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) - There's an increased chance for possible tropical formation in the Caribbean Sea over the next 7-days.

The National Hurricane Center says that "a tropical wave located several hundred miles east of the Windward Islands continues to produce a broad area of showers and thunderstorms.

The NHC forecasts that this system will move quickly westward up to 25-mph crossing the Windward Islands over the next day.

Environmental conditions are expected to become more favorable for development in the middle to latter part of next week which will be around the time that a tropical depression should form as the system slows down over the central Caribbean Sea.

This system will bring heavy rainfall and gusty winds to the Windward Islands regardless of development Sunday into Monda

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