NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Depression Julia, located a couple hundred miles southeast of the
coast of South Carolina, and on Tropical Storm Karl, located about
midway between Africa and the Leeward Islands.
1. Showers and thunderstorms have increased near a broad low pressure
area associated with a tropical wave located between Africa and the
Cabo Verde Islands. Environmental conditions appear conducive for
development, and a tropical depression could form by the
early part of next week while this system moves westward to
west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic. This
system is likely to bring heavy rain and gusty winds to portions of
the Cabo Verde Islands during the next couple of days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent
Forecaster Blake
