ORLANDO, Fla. _ A system that formed off the coast of Africa in the Atlantic had a low potential to form into the next tropical depression or tropical storm, but those chances are now gone.
"Environmental conditions have become less conducive, and development of this system is no longer anticipated," the National Hurricane Center said in its 2 p.m. Saturday advisory.
Forecasters dropped the tropical wave's chances of formation to 0% in the next two to five days. Its previous chances were up to 10%.
The wave producing a few showers and thunderstorms was last located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
If it did spin up to tropical storm strength before any other system potentially forms, it would be named Tropical Storm Josephine.
The hurricane center first caught the tropical wave on Friday.
The 2020 hurricane season is on pace to be one of the busiest on record, having already produced nine named storms and a 10th system that became a tropical depression.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday reworked its initial projections for the season, predicting up to 25 named storms, which is the most ever predicted by the NOAA.
The busiest season on record, though, was 2005, which creating 28 named and unnamed systems, so much so that the NHC ran out of its normal list of 21 names, which skip letters like X, Y and Z, and had to begin using storm names from the Greek alphabet like Tropical Storm Alpha.
The NOAA actually only predicted 21 named systems for 2005.
The remaining names for 2020 are Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.
