The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical wave that has developed a couple hundred miles southeast of the Cape Verde Islands.

While the system was given no chance of development over the next 48 hours, conditions may be more conducive for a longer-term development. Chances of development over the next five days are 20 percent.

So far, no storms that have formed off the coast of Africa have amounted to anything. The three named tropical storms were all products of the Gulf of Mexico or off the coast north of Florida.