Tropical Depression Could Form Thursday or Friday, NWS Says

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SAN JUAN — A trough of low pressure is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms a few hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda today.

Environmental conditions are forecast to be marginally conducive for gradual development of this system, and a subtropical or tropical depression could form on Thursday or Friday while the system moves generally eastward.

By the weekend, the low should turn northward bringing the system over cooler waters, likely limiting additional development.

It has a low (30 percent) chance of formation during the next 48 hours and a medium (50 percent) chance in the next seven days.

For the latest updates, visit: Hurricanes.gov

Marine Forecast: hurricanes.gov/marine

John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.

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