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(Miami, FL) -- The National Hurricane Center is tracking a new system that has just popped up in the eastern Atlantic, Invest 95-L.
The wave is located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
According to the NHC, "This system is also interacting with a tropical wave located farther east, and their combination is producing an elongated area of showers and thunderstorms over the eastern and central tropical Atlantic and while environmental conditions appear only somewhat favorable due to the proximity of dry air to the north, some slow development of this system is possible through early next week, as it begins to move westward across the central tropical Atlantic."
The disturbance has a 20 percent chance of development over the next two days and a 40% chance of development over the next seven days. If the system becomes a named storm, it will be called Emily.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Don continues to spin harmlessly in the middle of the Atlantic and is not a threat to land. As of the 5 a.m. advisory, Don is located about 1,045 miles west of the Azores and moving west northwest at 9 miles per hour, with maximum sustained winds at 50 miles per hour.