Invest 98L is likely to develop in the Caribbean. As of Monday afternoon, it had a 50% chance of developing over the next two days and an 80% chance of developing over the next week. If Invest 98L becomes Tropical Storm or Hurricane Melissa, it will be the 13th named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season.

Invest 98L now has a 70% (medium) chance of developing into a named storm in the Caribbean within the next seven days.

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), a tropical depression could develop this week in the Caribbean. A tropical system, designated by the NHC as Invest 98L, is currently over the eastern Caribbean Sea,

By the time Invest 98L reaches the central Caribbean in the middle to later part of this week, a tropical depression is likely to form.

Recent satellite wind data indicate the tropical wave (Invest 98L) located over the eastern Caribbean Sea still lacks a closed circulation, but continues to produce a concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms.

It will slow down by the middle of next week over the very warm waters of the Caribbean, just south of Puerto Rico, the DR, and Haiti.

We’re keeping a close eye on a tropical disturbance moving quickly into the eastern Caribbean, currently being tracked by the National Hurricane Center as Invest 98L.