Met Service monitoring tropical wave approaching the Caribbean
Published:Friday | August 30, 2024 | 10:56 AM
The Meteorological Service of Jamaica says it is monitoring the progress of a tropical wave that is set to enter the Caribbean region next week.
"It currently has a moderate chance of developing into a tropical depression by then and could increase rainfall activity for Jamaica later in the week," the Met Service posted on social media site X on Friday.
The National Hurricane Centre (NHC), in Miami in the US, says showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave over the central tropical Atlantic remain disorganised.
It says gradual development of this system is possible during the next few days, and a tropical depression could form some time next week while it moves westward, reaching the Lesser Antilles on Monday and continuing across the Caribbean Sea through the middle to latter part of the week.
The NHC currently gives the disturbance a 40 per cent chance of developing into a storm within the next week.
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