000 ABNT20 KNHC 020517 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 AM EDT WED SEP 2 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Fred, located several hundred miles northwest of the Cape Verde Islands. A weak surface trough, the remnants of Erika, has moved inland over the eastern portions of the Florida panhandle. Although redevelopment into a tropical cyclone is not expected, this system could still produce brief periods of locally heavy rainfall over portions of northern Florida and southern Georgia during the next day or so while it drifts northward and northeastward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...near 0 percent A tropical wave is forecast to move off of the west coast of Africa on Thursday several hundred miles southeast of the Cape Verde Islands. Development, if any, of this system should be slow to occur through the weekend while it moves westward at 15 to 20 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent $$ Forecaster Stewart