A disturbance in the Caribbean could drop serious rain on Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic by midweek before proceeding to South Florida, according to the National Weather Service’s forecast.
But the chances it gets to South Florida as more than the garden variety summer storm are minimal. The service’s Tropical Weather Outlook puts the chance of the disturbance forming into even a tropical depression at 10 percent by midday Tuesday and only 20 percent by midday Friday.
The 8 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center says not much development is expected while the “persistent area of cloudiness and thunderstorms” is over land. Once over the Straits of Florida or the Bahamas, however, “conditions could be a little more conducive for development to occur.”
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