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Aug 10, 2009 8:44 am US/Eastern

Forecasters Watch Wave Off Cape Verde Islands

WEST MIAMI DADE (CBS4) ― It's been quiet in the tropics, thanks in part to the Pacific Ocean weather event known as "El Niño", but the National Hurricane Center is watching something that it believes has a fair chance of developing into the season's first named storm.

Forecasters at the Hurricane Center are watching a tropical wave to the southwest of the southern Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa.

Showers and thunderstorms associated with the wave have diminished; however, conditions still appear favorable for further development, according to the Hurricane Center. It could become a tropical depression during the next day or two as it moves toward the west at 10 to 15 mph.

If it were to strengthen into a storm, it would be Tropical Storm Ana. There is still no way of knowing what area might be affected should a depression or storm form.


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