000 ABPZ20 KNHC 292348 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 PM PDT MON AUG 29 2016 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Lester, located well east of the Hawaiian Islands. A broad and elongated area of low pressure located several hundred miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula continues to produce a large area of cloudiness and disorganized showers. Development, if any, of this system should be slow to occur while it moves slowly westward during the next several days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent An area of low pressure is expected to form by the end of the week a few hundred miles south or southeast of Acapulco, Mexico. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system while it moves west-northwestward or northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent $$ Forecaster Cangialosi