The weather system making its way across the Caribbean has a low chance of forming into the season’s next tropical depression or storm, according to the National Hurricane Center.
The broad area of low pressure has disorganized showers and thunderstorms spanning the the central and western Caribbean Sea.
“Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur before it moves inland over Central America on Saturday,” forecasters said.
It’s expected to bring heavy rains to portions of Jamaica through tonight and across Central America on Friday and into the weekend.
The NHC gives it a 20% chance of development in the next two to seven days.
The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season has had 21 official systems including an unnamed subtropical storm in January and 20 systems since the start of hurricane season on June 1, 19 of which were named. The next name on the list is Vince followed by Whitney.
Hurricane season runs through Nov. 30.
