ST JOHN'S, Antigua, September 7, 2009 - Another tropical storm is on the horizon.
According to the National Hurricane Centre (NHC), a broad area of low pressure associated with a strong tropical wave, located about 200 miles south-southeast of the southern Cape Verde Islands, is showing signs of developing further and could become Tropical Storm Fred within another two days.
"Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with this system is showing signs of organization. Conditions appear favourable for the low to develop into a tropical depression later today or tonight as it moves west or west-northwestward at near 20 miles per hour," the NHC said in its tropical weather outlook this morning.
"There is a high chance, greater than 50 per cent, of this system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours," it added.
If this system develops it would be the sixth named storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season.
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