Meteorologists at the Miami-headquartered National Hurricane Center (NHC) are actively watching the progression of a tropical wave today (July 21), which could threaten the Eastern Caribbean into next week.

At the moment, the small low-pressure system, designated Invest95L, has to contend with a plume of Saharan dust, stretching from West Africa into the Caribbean basin.

However, while the tropical wave is producing disorganised showers and thunderstorm activity several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde archipelago, favourable upper-level winds are expected to foster a gradual development of the disturbance over the next several days.

With formation chances at a ‘medium’ 60 per cent within seven days, the NHC warned that “this system could become a tropical depression early next week, as it moves westward across the tropical Atlantic”.

Emily is the next available name on the 2023 North Atlantic Hurricane season list.

Further north, a stubborn Tropical Storm Don still poses no direct threat to land even as it shifted westward towards Newfoundland.

According to NHC sleuths, Don, which restrengthened into a tropical storm on Monday after weakening over the weekend, was located near 1,330 kilometres south-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland as at 11:10 am Atlantic Standard Time (AST).

With little change over the next 24 hours, Don continues to move west-northwest at 17 kilometres/hour, packing maximum sustained winds near 85 kilometres/hour, with higher gusts.