Showers and thunderstorms have become more concentrated in association with a broad low pressure area located about midway between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles.

Environmental conditions remain conducive for additional development, and this system is expected to become a tropical depression within the next day or so while it moves west-northwestward to northwestward at 10 to 15 mph across the central tropical Atlantic.

Formation chance through 48 hours: high - 90 percent. Formation chance through 7 days: high - 90 percent.