Pair of Atlantic Weather Systems Have Low Chance of Becoming Depressions

Two weather systems over the Atlantic and southeastern Caribbean have a “low chance” of strengthening into depressions or tropical storms, the National Hurricane Center said.

Clouds and thunderstorms stretching from the island of Guadeloupe to northern Venezuela have a 10 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next two days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said today on its website. Tropical cyclones are rotating systems that include depressions, tropical storms and hurricanes.

The second system, a patch of “disturbed weather” further east over the Atlantic, is about 700 miles (1,100 kilometers) southwest of the Cape Verde Islands and has a 20 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone, the center said.

Neither system is close to the Gulf of Mexico, where BP Plc is trying to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The Caribbean system covers islands including Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Barbados, Martinique and Dominica.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Morales in London at amorales2@bloomberg.net.

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