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ABNT20 KNHC 160500
TWOAT 

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
200 AM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

A large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms located about 450
miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is associated with a
tropical wave.  Environmental conditions are expected to be
conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to
form during the next few days while the system moves
west-northwestward to northwestward toward the central tropical
Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent

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Forecaster Brown