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Forecasters Keep Eye On Tropical Wave In Caribbean

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By NEIL JOHNSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 21, 2008

TAMPA - A tropical wave forecasters started watching last week could become a tropical depression today in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

The wave is about 100 miles south of Puerto Rico and is moving slowly north northwest with winds of about 25 mph.

The wave has become better organized overnight and a hurricane hunter aircraft will fly through the area this afternoon.

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the wave will be nearing an area where conditions are favorable for it to develop.

Computer forecast models are widely split on where the wave will head the next several days. They take the storm generally to the northwest near Puerto Rico and Hispaniola and toward the eastern Bahamas.

Intensity forecast models are equally split with most predicting the depression will reach tropical storm strength by mid-week, though only one calls for the storm to become a hurricane.

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