Hurricane center raises odds that Atlantic tropical depression will form

By Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel (TNS)

The National Hurricane Center on Sunday increased the odds 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 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave dubbed Invest 95L had a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms several hundred miles south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic.

“Environmental conditions appear conducive for additional development of this system, and a tropical depression is likely to form this week as the system moves quickly across the central tropical Atlantic, approaching portions of the Leeward Islands by the latter part of this week,” forecasters said.

The NHC