A tropical disturbance over the Lesser Antilles Islands is bringing heavy rain showers and gusty winds to those islands, and is a threat to develop into a tropical depression early next week. The disturbance is expected to bring heavy rains of 3 - 6 inches to the Dominican Republic on Sunday, and these rains may spread to Haiti, eastern Cuba, Jamaica, and the southeast Bahamas early next week. In the far eastern Atlantic, Tropical Depression Igor is poised to begin a period of steady strengthening that will bring it to hurricane status by early next week. Sea Surface Temperatures in the tropical Atlantic were at their warmest levels on record in August, the 7th consecutive month with record warm.
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