The National Hurricane Center

is monitoring a disturbance in the far Atlantic, and forecasters are giving the system an 80 percent chance of development in the next couple of days.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring what it calls Potential Tropical Cyclone Six in the far Atlantic. Forecasters are giving the system an 80 percent chance of development in the next 48 hours and a 90 percent likelihood in the next five days, according to an advisory issued at 5 p.m. Thursday. “Some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and the disturbance is expected to become a tropical storm during the next day or so,” the hurricane center said. If it becomes a named storm, it would be named Florence. The system is located about 360 miles eastsoutheast of the southernmost Cabo Verde Islands, with maximum sustained winds of 30 mph. It is moving west at 9 mph. The government of the Cabo Verde Islands has issued a tropical storm warning for the southern islands of Santiago, Fogo and Brava. Forecasters are also keeping an eye on a tropical wave in the north-central Caribbean Sea that is producing a large batch of thunderstorms. The system is expected to continue moving west and northwestward and into the Gulf of Mexico during the next several days. However, forecasters say that strong upper-level winds will likely prevent any significant development. Regardless, the system is expected to bring rainfall across Florida early next week.