000 ABPZ20 KNHC 082350 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 PM PDT SAT OCT 8 2016 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms, extending from several hundred miles south through southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, is associated with a trough of low pressure. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression is likely to form by the early or middle part of next week while this system moves west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent An area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms is centered a few hundred miles west of Costa Rica. Upper-level winds are expected to become conducive for development in a couple of days, and a tropical depression is likely to form by the middle of next week while this system moves westward and then west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent $$ Forecaster Blake