Miami, (EFE) – While Tropical Depression Twelve moves northwest over the Atlantic without being a threat to land, a wide area of low pressure continues to create showers and electrical storms in the southeastern Caribbean and if it remains over water it will be a tropical depression in the next few days.
Lesser Antilles, the north coast of South America, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Central America should be attentive to this system, the National Hurricane Center warned on Wednesday (NHC) of the USA, based in Miami.
The warning is included in the first report of the day on cyclone activity in the Atlantic basin, which continues to be shaken by the powerful Hurricane Ian, which hit Cuba, Florida and South Carolina leaving death and destruction in its wake.
The low pressure area is located to the east of the Windward Islands (Lesser Antilles) and moves westward producing showers and electrical storms in its path.
Radar images of Barbados and surface observations indicate that the system has not become better organized since Tuesday.
However, upper-level winds are forecast to become more conducive to development and a tropical depression is likely to form in the next few days if the system remains over water while moving generally westward around 15 mph (24 km/h) over the southeastern and southern Caribbean Sea, the NHC said.
Regardless of development, heavy rains with localized flooding, as well as gale-force gusting winds, are expected across portions of the Windward Islands, portions of the northern coast of South America, and Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao during the next few days.
The probability of formation of a tropical depression in 48 hours is 60% (medium), but five days ahead it is 80% (high).
As for Tropical Depression Twelve, the NHC said that it is moving northwest with little change in the intensity of the winds, which are currently 35 miles per hour (55 kmH).
Doce was this morning 480 miles (770 km) west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of Africa.
