000 ABPZ20 KNHC 312309 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 PM PDT WED AUG 31 2016 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center has issued its last advisory on Hurricane Lester, located well east of the Hawaiian Islands. Future advisories on Lester will be issued by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. Disorganized cloudiness and showers are located a few hundred miles south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Environmental conditions are expected to gradually become conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to form over the weekend while the low moves west-northwestward or northwestward near the coast of Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent A broad area of low pressure is located about 1000 miles south- southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. This system is expected to drift westward during the next few days, and any development should be slow to occur due to strong upper-level winds. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Berg