000 ABPZ20 KNHC 051754 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 AM PDT Sat Jun 5 2021 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The area of low pressure located about 500 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico is gradually becoming better defined. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for further development, and a tropical depression is likely to form today or tomorrow while it moves slowly to the west well off the coast of Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent. A broad trough of low pressure is expected to form a few hundred miles south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec by the middle of next week. Gradual development of this system is possible thereafter as it drifts slowly northward through the end of next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Papin/Blake