000 ABNT20 KNHC 181143 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT FRI SEP 18 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Nine, located in the central tropical Atlantic. A large area of disturbed weather extending from the eastern Gulf of Mexico across the Florida peninsula and into the adjacent Atlantic Ocean is associated with a broad surface trough interacting with an upper-level trough. An area of low pressure has developed east of the northern Florida peninsula overnight, and there is some potential for this low to develop into a subtropical or tropical cyclone during the next few days as it moves slowly northeastward off the southeast coast of the United States. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains are possible over portions of the Florida Peninsula and coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina today. For more information on this system, see High Seas Forecasts and products issued by your local National Weather Service office. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent Shower activity associated with an area of low pressure located about 800 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands continues to show signs of organization. Conditions appear favorable for development, and a tropical depression could form during the next day or two while the system moves toward the west-northwest at 10 to 15 mph. After that time, conditions are expected to become less conducive for tropical cyclone formation. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent && High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service are available under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and on the Web at http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml. $$ Forecaster Brennan