Overview

• Invest 97-L is a tropical wave southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands producing a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
• The National Hurricane Center puts formation chances at 30% through 48 hours and 50% through seven days.
• A tropical depression could form in the early to middle part of the week if the system consolidates.
• The disturbance is moving west-northwest to northwest at 15–20 mph, and most model guidance favors a northward turn over open water with little land threat.
• If it strengthens into a tropical storm, it would take the name Lorenzo.