Tropical depression likely to form early next week, NHC says

John McCarthyPosted oninBreaking News, Caribbean News, Environmental News, International News

MIAMI — The National Hurricane Central is monitoring a tropical wave in the central Atlantic with a high formation chance in the next seven days.

Disorganized cloudiness and showers located about 1,100 miles east of the Leeward Islands are associated with a tropical wave.

Environmental conditions are expected to be favorable for gradual development of this system during the next few days, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the early part of next week.

The disturbance is forecast to move west-northwestward to northwestward at about 15 mph during the next day or so, and then turn north-northwestward to northward over the central subtropical
Atlantic Monday and Tuesday.

* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…20 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…high…70 percent.

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.