NHC says 70% chance of cyclone in next 48 hours for storm near Leeward Islands

(Reuters) -An area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located a couple of hundred miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands has 70% chance of cyclone formation in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday.

“Environmental conditions appear conducive for further development of this system, and a tropical depression is likely to form this weekend while it moves northwestward and then northward, in between the Lesser Antilles and Bermuda,” the NHC said.

(Reporting by Anmol Choubey in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)