NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center was monitoring newly formed Tropical Storm Igor in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean and two other tropical systems in the Atlantic basin on Wednesday, but so far none showed any early signs of entering the energy-rich Gulf of Mexico and disrupting offshore production.

Igor was bringing "squally" weather to the Cape Verde Islands, packing winds of 40 miles per hour as it moved west at just 6 mph. Early computer models showed the system strengthening into a hurricane in about three days as it moved west to northwest in the open Atlantic.

In addition, a weak area of low pressure near the Windward Islands and a second low pressure system about 100 miles east of the northern Cape Verde Islands both had about a 10 percent chances to become tropical cyclones during the next 48 hours as they moved west or west-northwest at 5 to 10 mph.

The NHC said the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston, a couple hundred miles south of the Dominican Republic, had a near zero percent chance to redevelop into a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours.

(Reporting by Eileen Moustakis; Editing by John Picinich)