000 ABNT20 KNHC 092331 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT TUE SEP 9 2014 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A broad area of low pressure is located a few hundred miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. Shower activity associated with this low has not become any better organized since yesterday, and no tropical cyclone formation is anticipated tonight or Wednesday. However, environmental conditions could become a little more favorable for development by later in the week while the low moves toward the west-northwest and northwest at about 15 mph over the open Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the Bahamas and the adjacent Atlantic are associated with a weak trough. Surface pressures are not falling in the area, and development, if any, will be very slow to occur. This system is forecast to move toward the west at about 10 mph during the next few days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Avila