The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) is closely tracking an area of low atmospheric pressure across the eastern and central tropical Atlantic, with meteorologists projecting it has a growing chance of strengthening into a tropical depression before the end of the week. As of the latest official outlook, this unorganized system sits several hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands, where it is currently producing scattered, disconnected showers and thunderstorms that have not yet coalesced into a cohesive cyclonic structure.
NHC monitors Atlantic disturbance with 60% development potential
