The tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic is beginning to show its limitations, causing the National Hurricane Center to lower its odds of development.
A wave that emerged off the coast of Africa early Monday is continuing to produce a large area of disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms a few hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, the NHC said in its 8 a.m. Tuesday update.
Forecasters gave the system a 20% chance of forming in the next two days but decreased its five-day forecast odds from 40% to 30% Tuesday morning. The wave faces several challenges to its development, including the dry air of the Saharan dust resting over the mid-Atlantic and covering the Caribbean and Florida.
