000 ABNT20 KNHC 100524 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 AM EDT WED SEP 10 2014 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A broad area of low pressure is located about 500 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands. Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with this low has changed little in organization during the past few hours. While tropical cyclone formation is not anticipated today, environmental conditions could become somewhat 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 cloudiness and showers over the Bahamas and the adjacent Atlantic are associated with a weak surface trough interacting with an upper-level low. Development, if any, of this system is expected to be very slow to occur while it moves generally westward at 5 to 10 mph during the next few days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Brennan