The National Hurricane Centre is monitoring a tropical wave currently located a few hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.

The wave is currently interacting with the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone and the combination of these features is producing an elongated area of showers and thunderstorms over the eastern and central tropical Atlantic.

The NHC says dry air to the north may prevent significant organization during the next couple of days.

It adds however that environmental conditions could become more conducive for some development this weekend as the system moves westward across the central tropical Atlantic.