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ABNT20 KNHC 221751
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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Fri Sep 22 2023

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories Tropical Storm 
Ophelia, located a couple hundred miles south of Cape Hatteras, 
North Carolina.

Central Tropical Atlantic (AL90):
Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with an area of low 
pressure located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde 
Islands has decreased slightly over the last few hours, however, 
further development is still expected. A tropical depression is 
likely to form during the next couple of days while the system moves 
generally westward at 10 to 15 mph. The system is then expected to 
turn west-northwestward early next week as it moves over the central 
tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent.

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Forecaster D. Zelinsky/R. Zelinsky