The National Hurricane Center on Saturday continued to give a tropical wave in the Atlantic a medium chance it would develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the wave was near the Cape Verde Islands in the far eastern Atlantic and producing limited showers and thunderstorms.

“Dry and stable air will likely limit this system’s development over the next few days, but a tropical depression could form by the middle to latter part of next week while moving west-northwestward to northwestward at 10 to 15 mph over the central tropical Atlantic,” forecasters said.

The NHC gave it a 50% chance to develop in the next seven days, up from 40% forecast Friday.

If it were to develop into a named storm, it could become Tropical Storm Gabrie

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