A tropical depression or storm is likely to form during the next day or so in the Central Tropical Atlantic.

However, according to projections from the National Hurricane Centre, this system is not expected to make landfall in the Caribbean or North America.

The NHC says shower and thunderstorm activity is continuing in association with the area of low pressure located about 700 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands.

It currently does not currently have a well-defined center of circulation, however environmental conditions are forecast to be sufficiently favorable for development over the next few days, and a

The system is expected to move northwestward today, and then turn northward over the central subtropical Atlantic by late tonight or Tuesday.

• Formation chance through 48 hours…high…70%
• Formation chance through 7 days…high…80 %