A disorganized system of scattered showers and thunderstorms drifting in the central to southwestern Caribbean Sea has caught the eye of the National Hurricane Center. In their recent five-day outlook, forecasters have given the series of storms a 30 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone as it slowly moves north.

According to National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Davis, the storm's reach won't make for a wet weekend in Tampa Bay.

"Currently the system would not have impact on our area by the weekend," Davis said. "As to how it will affect us in the future, there are still a lot of unknowns. So we will continue to monitor the system and provide any updates for impacts to the area next week."

Davis explained that the "x" on the Hurricane Center's tropical weather outlook above is the central location of the broad area of low pressure, with storms reaching out from that point. The shaded area is where the National Hurricane Center predicts the storm could strengthen to a tropical cyclone if it were to do so at all. It's still unclear what the system will do after that.

"There are a lot of unknown factors for forecasts out past the five-day and things could change very quickly," Davis said.

As for Hurricane Leslie, that storm seems to be content drifting away in the Atlantic, according to the latest reports from the hurricane center. It has curved out and headed northwest further into the Atlantic, and away from the East Coast.

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