NHC Tracking Invest 95L; Invest 94L will not develop further

The chances of a tropical depression developing in the Atlantic Ocean have increased, but the system is not currently expected to affect the United States, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The hurricane center is currently tracking two systems in the Atlantic, including one in the northwestern Caribbean, currently designated Invest 95L.

The system is associated with a “major low pressure area” that will bring widespread showers and thunderstorms to the area. The system is “gradually becoming better defined north of eastern Honduras,” the NHC said in a statement Friday morning.

Environmental conditions appear to favor further development over the next day or two, and a “short-lived” tropical depression or storm could form before the system moves inland over Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Saturday, forecasters said. The NHC gives this system a 50 percent chance of education within the next 48 hours.

“Regardless of developments, locally heavy rainfall is expected in parts of Central America and southern Mexico through the weekend,” the NHC said on Friday.

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Invest 94L is not expected to develop further

The NHC is also tracking a “poorly defined area of low pressure” producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending from the northern Leeward Islands several hundred miles north across the adjacent Atlantic waters.

Development of this system, if at all, should be “slow” as it moves west to west-northwest. It will pass near or just north of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Friday and then near Hispaniola and the southeastern Bahamas on Saturday.

The system, currently designated Invest 94L, is not expected to develop further due to strong upper-level winds, the NHC said Friday. The hurricane center gives the system only a 10 percent chance of forming in the next 48 hours.

The next named strikers of the season will be Nadine and Oscar.

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Invest 94L is not expected to develop further

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