000 ABNT20 KNHC 152334 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT MON AUG 15 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms over the eastern Atlantic several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is associated with a tropical wave. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development during the next few days, and a tropical depression is likely to form while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward toward the central tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent $$ Forecaster Brown