Cayman Islands monitoring tropical wave southeast of Jamaica with potential to strengthen

The Cayman islands meteorologists are keeping an eye on a tropical wave located southeast of Jamaica that is tracking west over the Caribbean Sea.

The National Hurricane Centre in its 7am update said environmental conditions are conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to form within the next couple of days while the system moves slowly westward into the western Caribbean Sea.   

Models show the area of low pressure moving slowly westward south of the Cayman Islands, where it is then expected to stall out and strengthen, close to the border of Honduras and Nicaragua, before a cold front is expected to pull it up to the north and northwest, potentially as a strengthening hurricane starting at the beginning of next week.