While environmental conditions were marginally conducive for some development, forecasters said development would be slow and the wave is expected to hit conditions that will be unfavorable in the coming days. As of Monday morning, the system had a 20% chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm in the next seven days.

We are monitoring a tropical wave that is more than 1,000 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

The window is narrowing for a new tropical system to emerge from an area of stormy weather located in the central Atlantic and moving toward the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane