Small window of opportunity exists for disturbance in Atlantic to organize

MIAMI – The main area of interest in the tropics Thursday is a small disturbance the National Hurricane Center has designated Invest 97L, which is located about 800 miles east of the Caribbean islands.  

There appears to be a small window of opportunity for the system to organize over the Atlantic before the atmospheric conditions become hostile over the Caribbean.  

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Invest 97 bears watching, but the chances of it becoming a significant threat appear low.

Elsewhere, the system that is a combination of an autumn cold front and the remnants of Florence is moving away from the U.S. It appears that a low-pressure system will form from the tail end of that disturbance. That low is forecast to get stranded over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in a few days and might meander there long enough to eventually become tropical enough to get a name, which would be Kirk.  

It does not appear that the system, whether it gets named or not, would be a threat anywhere in North America this week, and likely not at all.