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Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook
2018-09-06 23:14:19| National Hurricane Center (Atlantic)
479 ABNT20 KNHC 062114 TWOAT Special Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 515 PM EDT Thu Sep 6 2018 Special outlook issued to update probabilities for the far eastern Atlantic system. For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Florence, located over the central subtropical Atlantic Ocean. The Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Gordon, located over Arkansas. The circulation associated with an area of low pressure centered several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands remains broad and elongated, and the associated shower and thunderstorm activity has not yet increased in organization. However, environmental conditions are conducive for development, and a tropical depression is expected to form within the next day or two while the system moves slowly westward or west-northwestward across the tropical Atlantic Ocean. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. Updated: A tropical wave with an accompanying low pressure area is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa on Friday. This system is already showing signs of organization, and a tropical depression is likely to form over the weekend or early next week while the wave moves westward or west-northwestward over the far eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. Interests in the Cabo Verde Islands should monitor the progress of this system. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent. $$ Forecaster Blake
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