000 ABNT20 KNHC 032318 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 PM EDT Sun Sep 3 2023 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Active Systems: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Gert, located over the central subtropical Atlantic, and Tropical Storm Katia, located over the eastern subtropical Atlantic. Central Tropical Atlantic (AL95): Showers and thunderstorms are showing signs of organization in association with a tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for further development, and this system is expected to become a tropical depression in two or three days. Additional strengthening is likely late this week while the system moves westward to west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph over the central and western portions of the tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent. Eastern Tropical Atlantic: A tropical wave over western Africa is forecast to move offshore in a couple of days. Environmental conditions could support some slow development starting midweek while the wave moves to the west- northwest at about 15 mph over the far eastern tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...30 percent. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi