000 ABNT20 KNHC 291731 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 PM EDT Sat Jul 29 2023 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Central Tropical Atlantic (AL96): Disorganized cloudiness and showers located about 1100 miles east of the Leeward Islands are associated with a tropical wave and broad area of low pressure. Environmental conditions are forecast to be favorable for gradual development of this system during the next few days, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the early part of next week. The disturbance is expected to move northwestward at about 15 mph during the next day or so, and then turn northward over the central subtropical Atlantic by late Monday or Tuesday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...70 percent. $$ Forecaster Brown