000 ABNT20 KNHC 232339 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT WED SEP 23 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Ida, located about 1000 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the southwestern Caribbean Sea are associated with a trough of low pressure. While environmental conditions are not favorable for development over the next couple of days, this system is expected to be approaching the southern Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. Although upper-level winds are not expected to be particularly conducive there, some development is possible while the system moves northward early next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Blake