000 ABNT20 KNHC 081142 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT THU SEP 8 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A large but disorganized area of disturbed weather located about 500 miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is associated with a tropical wave. Development of this system, if any, will likely be slow to occur during the next couple of days. However, conditions could become a little more favorable for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form early next week while this system moves westward and then west-northwestward into the central Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent A concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad area of low pressure has developed about 350 miles east of the Leeward Islands. This activity is expected to move toward the west-northwest, and additional development, if any, will be slow to occur during the next several days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Avila