000 ABNT20 KNHC 071143 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT WED SEP 7 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A tropical wave is passing near the Cabo Verde Islands accompanied by disorganized showers and thunderstorms. No significant development is expected during the next couple of days, but conditions are forecast to become a little more favorable for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by the weekend while it moves west-northwestward toward the central tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent $$ Forecaster Avila