000 ABPZ20 KNHC 090555 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 PM PDT SAT OCT 8 2016 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: An elongated trough of low pressure, located several hundred miles south and southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms. This system is expected to consolidate during the next couple of days, and a tropical depression is likely to form later this week while moving west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent An area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms extends a couple of hundred miles south of El Salvador. Upper-level winds are expected to become conducive for development in a couple of days, and a tropical depression is likely to form later this week while this system moves westward and then west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent $$ Forecaster Berg