More than three weeks into the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is watching a system with a slim chance of developing into the season's first storm.
Showers and thunderstorms associated with a low-pressure system about 450 miles east of Bermuda show the potential for becoming a short-lived tropical depression, the hurricane center said at 8 p.m. ET on June 22.
Satellite images showed it has some signs of organization, which could briefly become a tropical depression over the next day or so, according to the center's forecast by Philippe Papin, a hurricane specialist.
The forecast gives the system a 40% chance of becoming a depression over the next 48 hours. But by June 24, the system is expected to encounter less favorable conditions that would end its chances of becoming anything more than a depression.
The system's forecast to continue moving northeastward at 5 to 10 mph over the open Central Atlantic and poses no threat to land.
