000 ABNT20 KNHC 260512 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Fri Oct 26 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Showers and thunderstorms are gradually becoming better organized in association with a low pressure system located about 1000 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. However, recent satellite data indicate that the circulation is elongated and the center is not yet well defined. This system will likely become a tropical or subtropical cyclone later today while it moves generally northward over the central Atlantic. After that time, the low is forecast to turn westward well to the north or northeast of the Lesser Antilles through early next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. && Additional information on this system can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service, under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and available on the Web at https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml $$ Forecaster Cangialosi