000 ABNT20 KNHC 061147 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT THU OCT 6 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Matthew, located over the Bahamas, and on Tropical Storm Nicole, located several hundred miles south of Bermuda. A concentrated area of showers and thunderstorms approaching the Lesser Antilles is associated with a tropical wave. Development, if any, of this disturbance is expected to be slow to occur while the wave moves westward through the Caribbean Sea through early next week. Locally heavy rains and gusty winds are possible in the Windward and southern Leeward Islands during the next day or two as the system moves through the area. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent $$ Forecaster Kimberlain