NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Florence, located over the east-central tropical Atlantic Ocean and on recently downgraded Tropical Depression Gordon, located over central Mississippi.
1. Shower activity associated with a broad area of low pressure centred a couple of hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands has become better organized since yesterday. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for additional development and a tropical depression is expected to form by the end of the week while the system moves west-northwest across the tropical Atlantic Ocean.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…medium…50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days…high…90 percent.
2. A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa in a few days. Some development of the system is possible over the weekend while the wave moves westward over the far eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days…low…30 percent.
Forecaster Beven
Source: The Daily Herald https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/80290-tropical-weather-outlook-800-am-edt-wed-sep-5-2018
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