Above, I've attached a satellite image with the areas I'm watching for some development over the next few days circled. The area near the Bahamas is an upper level low (this is the area that, if it tracks far enough north, could end up giving us a cloudier/wetter weekend... a trend we'll be watching for in the models). In the center of the image is the large tropical wave that we started talking about 7 days ago; so far, it's struggled to develop but thunderstorms are really firing around it this morning. This is the wave, though, that will move well out into the Atlantic.
Elsewhere, the wave east of the Caribbean -- east of the Windward Islands -- is worth watching as is the large wave near 10 degrees north at the edge of the image.
Brian
