000 ABNT20 KNHC 290557 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 AM EDT SAT AUG 29 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Erika, located between Haiti and Cuba. Showers and thunderstorms have increased in association with a broad area of low pressure located just west of the coast of west Africa. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development, and a tropical depression could form during the next few days while the system moves west-northwestward or northwestward toward the Cape Verde Islands at about 10 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent $$ Forecaster Blake