000 ABNT20 KNHC 010545 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Tue Aug 1 2023 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Central Tropical Atlantic (AL96): Showers and thunderstorms remain disorganized in association with a low pressure area located about 700 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands. Environmental conditions still could support tropical cyclone formation during the next few days while the system moves northwestward and then northward at 10 to 15 mph over the central subtropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...medium...50 percent. Western Atlantic (AL97): Shower and thunderstorm activity continues in association with a gale-force non-tropical low pressure system located over the western Atlantic several hundred miles south-southwest of Cape Race Newfoundland. The low is forecast to move quickly toward the east-northeast at 30 to 35 mph over colder waters today and tropical development is not expected. Additional information on the low, including gale warnings, can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent. && For more information about marine hazards associated with AL97, please see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php $$ Forecaster Pasch