NHC monitoring tropical wave over Hispaniola

Writer: Derrick Shaw
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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave over Hispaniola in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.

Forecasters said Sunday morning the wave is expected to move west-northwestward over the next several days and enter the southeastern Gulf of Mexico by late Tuesday, and then move across the central Gulf on Wednesday and into the northwestern Gulf on Thursday.

It will likely bring an increased chance of rain to Southwest Florida over the next 48 hours.

The NHC gives the system a 20% chance of development by Wednesday or Thursday.

If the system were to become a tropical storm, it would be the seventh storm of the Atlantic hurricane season and would be named Gonzalo.

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