Invest 94L could become a short-lived tropical depression near Cabo Verde

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The fault lies a few hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. It is now over open water and beginning a long journey west across the Atlantic.

What is the forecast for Invest 94L?

The storm became slightly more organized Saturday morning, but overall still lacks sufficient organization of its thunderstorm activity to be considered a tropical depression or tropical storm, the NHC said.

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Conditions remain favorable for some development Saturday – enough that the storm could be named Tropical Depression 15 or even Tropical Storm Nadine later in the day. However, chances for further development later Saturday are fading as the storm moves westward into less favorable atmospheric conditions.

At this point, the disruption is expected to last until at least the middle of the workweek and not progress further. After that, forecasters will keep a close eye on the storm as it begins to approach the eastern edges of the Caribbean.

“So you can see where these models are generally taking it, lowering it toward the south as it continues its path westward, where it may start to hit parts of the Caribbean islands and the Leeward Islands with some rain and some larger Surf,” explained FOX 13 News meteorologist Valerie Mills.

FOXWeather.com contributed to this story.

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