5. An area of low pressure is expected to form north of the
southeastern Bahamas in a few days resulting from the northern end
of a tropical wave interacting with an upper-level trough. Gradual
development of this system is possible, and a tropical depression
could form by the middle of the week several hundred miles
southeast of the Carolinas while it moves northwestward across the
western Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent.