000 ABNT20 KNHC 301140 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Sun Jul 30 2023 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Central Tropical Atlantic (AL96): Disorganized showers and thunderstorms continue in association with a broad area of low pressure located a little less than 1000 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. Environmental conditions are forecast to be marginally 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 this week. The system 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...medium...40 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...70 percent. Off the Carolina Coast: Shower and thunderstorm activity has increased in association with a trough of low pressure that recently emerged off the Carolina coastline, and is currently located about 100 miles south of Wilmington, North Carolina. Environmental conditions appear generally favorable for some additional development over the next day or two as the system gradually accelerates east-northeastward into the northwestern Atlantic ocean. Afterwards, this system is likely to merge with a frontal boundary. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Papin