Hurricane Summary POSTED: May 23, 2012 5:34 a.m. Watching the Northwest Caribbean

A developing area of low pressure in the northwestern Caribbean will track to the northeast across Cuba and the northern Bahamas over the next several days. It will cause locally heavy rain from far South Florida into the northern Bahamas. We do not expect this low to develop much over the next several days due to hostile shear aloft.

Elsewhere, no other tropical systems are expected to develop over the next 48-72 hours. The Atlantic tropical season officially begins on June 1.

By AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Bob Smerbeck