000 ABPZ20 KNHC 052340 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 500 PM PDT Wed Jul 5 2017 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: Showers and thunderstorms associated with a low pressure area located about 675 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula have continued to decrease this afternoon. The low is moving westward at 10 to 15 mph into less favorable environment conditions, and the chances of this system becoming a tropical depressions are decreasing. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent. Showers and thunderstorms have increased today in association with a broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico. Environmental conditions are expected to be favorable for additional development, and this system is likely to become a tropical depression this weekend while the disturbance moves generally westward to west-northwestward at about 10 mph away from the coast of Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent. $$ Forecaster Brown