WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A tropical wave located a couple of hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands has a 40% chance of becoming a depression.
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The National Hurricane Center said there's a 40% chance of it strengthening into a depression over the next seven days.
"Conditions are expected to be favorable for gradual development of this system later this week, and a tropical depression could form over the weekend or early next week while it moves westward to west-northwestward over the tropical Atlantic," the NHC said.
WPTV First Alert Weather meteorologist Steve Villanueva said that, for now, models keep the system out to sea.
"Computer models do take it up into the north Atlantic and keep it away from the U.S.," Villanueva said.
