The National Hurricane Center on Friday continued to watch the eastern Caribbean Sea, where a tropical depression could form in the next few days.

The hurricane center on Friday raised the probability of development to high (70 percent) and said a depression could form this weekend or early next week.

The system is expected to track westward into the Caribbean next week.

It’s too soon to say if it could eventually affect the United States.

As of Friday the disturbance was only a broad area of low pressure in the southeastern Caribbean that was generating disorganized rain and storms, the hurricane center said.

It is in a good area for development, and forecasters said it could bring heavy rain to parts of the Lesser Antilles, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico through this weekend.

A tropical system has to have a defined center and winds of at least 39 mph to become a tropical storm, and the next name on the 2022 storm list is Lisa.

The hurricane center was also watching an area of disturbed weather to the north, in the southwestern Atlantic.

However, forecasters think it will run into unfavorable conditions in the next few days, and the probability of a depression forming fell to 20 percent as of Friday morning.

The Atlantic hurricane season runs until Nov. 30. So far there have been 13 named storms and five hurricanes.