419 ABNT20 KNHC 011153 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Sat Sep 1 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on recently upgraded Tropical Storm Florence, located about a couple of hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. A tropical wave interacting with an upper-level trough is producing numerous showers and thunderstorms from Hispaniola northward across the Turks and Caicos Islands. This activity is forecast to spread west-northwestward, enhancing rainfall across Hispaniola, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas this weekend, and across Florida and the northern Gulf of Mexico coast by early next week. Strong upper-level winds will likely prevent significant development of this system during the next couple of days, but environmental conditions are expected to become a little more favorable for a surface low pressure area to form when the disturbance moves across the Gulf of Mexico during the early to middle part of next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent. $$ Forecaster Avila