000 ABNT20 KNHC 040518 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 AM EDT SUN OCT 4 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Joaquin, located several hundred miles southwest of Bermuda. A non-tropical area of low pressure over the central Atlantic about 800 miles east-southeast of Bermuda is producing limited shower and thunderstorm activity. Environmental conditions are becoming less conducive due to the approach of Hurricane Joaquin, and significant development of this system is not anticipated. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent A broad low pressure area located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Upper-level winds are not particularly conducive for tropical cyclone formation and any development of this system should be slow to occur during the next several days while it moves west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Brown