The hurricane center is currently tracking two systems in the Atlantic, including one in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, which is currently designated as Invest 95L.
The system is associated with a "broad area of low pressure" that is bringing widespread showers and thunderstorms to the area. The system is "gradually becoming better defined to the north of eastern Honduras," the NHC said in an advisory Friday morning.
Environmental conditions appear conducive for some additional development over the next day or two, and a "short-lived" tropical depression or storm could form before the system moves inland over Belize and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico on Saturday, forecasters said. The NHC gives this system a 50 percent chance of formation through the next 48 hours.
"Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is likely across portions of Central America and southern Mexico through the weekend," the NHC said Friday.
The National Hurricane Center said Friday it continues to keep tabs on two systems in the Atlantic Ocean, with neither likely to impact the US coastline. Courtesy of the National Hurricane Center
Invest 94L not expected to develop any further
The NHC is also tracking a "poorly-defined trough of low pressure" that is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending from the northern Leeward Islands northward for a couple hundred miles over the adjacent Atlantic waters.
Development of this system, if any, should be "slow to occur" as it moves westward to west-northwestward. It will pass near or just to the north of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Friday and then near Hispaniola and the southeastern Bahamas on Saturday.
The system, currently designated as Invest 94L, is not expected to develop any further due to strong upper-level winds, the NHC said Friday. The hurricane center gives the system just a 10 percent chance of formation through the next 48 hours.
The next named storms of the season will be Nadine and Oscar.
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Contributing: Cheryl McCloud; The Daytona Beach New-Journal
Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY. You can follow him on X @GabeHauari or email him at Gdhauari@gannett.com.
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