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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Fri Sep 15 2023

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane 
Lee, located several hundred miles south-southeast of the New 
England states, and on Hurricane Margot, located over the central 
Atlantic.

1. Central Tropical Atlantic (AL97):
Showers and thunderstorms have become better organized in 
association with a broad low pressure area located about midway 
between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles. 
Environmental conditions remain conducive for additional 
development, and this system is expected to become a tropical 
depression within the next day or so while it moves 
west-northwestward to northwestward at 10 to 15 mph across the 
central tropical Atlantic. For additional information on this 
system, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by 
the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent. 

2. Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa by 
the middle part of next week. Some gradual development of this 
system is possible thereafter while the system moves westward across 
the eastern tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.

High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service
can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 
KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php

Forecaster Bucci