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ABPZ20 KNHC 232326
TWOEP 

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
500 PM PDT Sun Aug 23 2020

For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude:

A broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles south of 
the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula continues to 
produce a large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms.  Conditions 
appear favorable for development, and a tropical depression is 
expected to form during the next couple of days while the system 
meanders or drifts northward a few hundred miles offshore of the 
coast of southwestern Mexico. For more information on this system 
see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service under 
AWIPS header NFDHSFEPI, WMO header FZPN02 KWBC, and on the web at 
ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFEPI.php 
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.

The circulation of a low pressure area located a couple of hundred 
miles south-southwest of the Gulf of Tehuantepec has become better 
defined, but the associated shower and thunderstorm activity is 
currently limited.  Conditions appear conducive for additional 
development of this system, and a tropical depression is likely to 
form within the next couple of days while it moves slowly 
northwestward, near or parallel to the southwestern coast of Mexico. 
Regardless of development, areas of heavy rainfall and flash 
flooding are likely in southeastern Mexico and northern Central 
America during the next several days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.

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Forecaster Pasch