000 ABNT20 KNHC 091154 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT FRI SEP 9 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A large area of disturbed weather associated with a westward-moving tropical wave is located about 1200 miles east of the Lesser Antilles. This system is gradually becoming better organized, and conditions are forecast to be favorable for a tropical depression to form this weekend or early next week. This disturbance is expected to move toward the west-northwest and then northwest over the central Atlantic during the next several days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent Cloudiness and showers located just north of the northern Leeward Islands are spreading west-northwestward with no signs of organization. Environmental conditions are not expected to be conducive for significant development. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent A small area of disturbed weather associated with a weak low has formed between Cuba and the western Bahamas. This activity is expected to spread westward across southern Florida and the Florida Keys later today and Saturday. Upper-level winds are not favorable for additional development. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent $$ Forecaster Avila