During the morning of this Wednesday, the low pressure center that was embedded in the axis of a tropical wave located to the east of the Lesser Antilles Arc, continued to gain in organization and became the

At eleven o'clock in the morning, the center of this system was located at 16.6 degrees North latitude and 49.6 degrees West longitude, a position that places it about 1,300 kilometers east of the northern group of the Lesser Antilles Arc.

The tropical depression has maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts and a central pressure of 1,009 hectoPascal.

It is moving west at 22 kilometers per hour.

In the next 12 to 24 hours, the tropical depression will continue with a similar course and travel speed, gradually gaining a little more organization and intensity.

The next Tropical Cyclone Warning for this system will be issued at 6 p.m. today, Wednesday.

(Institute of Meteorology)