3:37 p.m., Friday

The 2008 version of the hurricane season is winding down but just when you thought it was safe to take the plywood off your mobile home windows, hang on.

The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on a large area of disturbed weather halfway between the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles. The system “continues to show signs of organization,” hurricane center forecasters say.

Meteorologists will watch the area, which has a medium potential for growing into what may become a tropical something that could lead to a storm or maybe even hurricane. But it’s too early to tell now how organized the system is or where it will end up.

“Additional slow development of this system is possible over the next couple of days as it moves slowly west-northwestward,” according to the hurricane center’s Web site.

Forecasters, meanwhile, continue to watch an area of distrubed weather near the Lesser Antilles that is associated with a tropical wave. Significant development of the system is not expected, thanks to unfavorable upper level winds, the Web site says. That system has a low probability of developing, the Web site says.

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