000 ABNT20 KNHC 162333 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT SUN OCT 16 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A large area of cloudiness and disorganized showers located over the Bahamas and adjacent western Atlantic waters is associated with a surface trough that is interacting with an upper-level low. Environmental conditions are currently unfavorable for significant development, but they could become more conducive for tropical or subtropical cyclone formation Tuesday or Wednesday when the system begins to drift northward or north-northwestward. Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is possible over much of the Bahamas during the next couple of days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent $$ Forecaster Brown