000 ABPZ20 KNHC 201746 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1000 AM PST FRI NOV 20 2015 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Rick, located a few hundred miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. An area of low pressure located near the west coast of Nicaragua is about to emerge into the far eastern north Pacific Ocean and will move westward to west-southwestward through the weekend. Environmental conditions are expected to become conducive for development by early next week, and a tropical cyclone is likely to form south of the southern coast of Mexico by the middle of next week while the low moves westward or west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent $$ Forecaster Brennan