96L Likely to Become a Depression, and Tropical Storm Eta over the Weekend in the Caribbean

The tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean is very close to becoming a tropical depression and that will likely happen this weekend.

The system is expected to move west and has a high probability of impacting Central America, including Nicaragua and Honduras next week.

Here are the various model tracks:

Here are the various members of the GFS Ensemble:

Notice that some of them carry the storm over Cuba and even toward Southeast Florida. The deterministic GFS even subscribes to this theory.

The system has a good chance of becoming a hurricane, although. that is not a certainty. Here are the various intensity models:

When it becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Eta.

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