000 ABNT20 KNHC 061753 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 PM EDT TUE SEP 6 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center has issued the last advisory on Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine, located off of the New England coast of the United States. A tropical wave located near the west coast of Africa is producing disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms. A low pressure area is expected to form in association with the wave several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands in a couple of days. Environmental conditions are conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form by the weekend while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward toward the central tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent Disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms over the central Caribbean Sea and adjacent land areas are associated with a tropical wave. Upper-level winds are unfavorable, and development of this system is not expected. Nevertheless, periods of locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds are still possible over Hispaniola today in association with the wave and over Jamaica and eastern Cuba on Wednesday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...near 0 percent && Additional information on Hermine can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service, under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and available on the Web at http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml. $$ Forecaster Kimberlain