000 ABPZ20 KNHC 271740 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 AM PDT Wed Jun 27 2018 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: Satellite images indicate that a low pressure area located about 600 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, is becoming better defined, and environmental conditions support further development. If current trends continue, advisories could be initiated on a tropical depression later today or tonight while the system moves generally west-northwestward away from Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...near 100 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...near 100 percent. A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the eastern Pacific Ocean south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec is associated with a westward-moving tropical wave. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for gradual development of this system over the next several days, and a tropical depression is expected to form well south of the coast of Mexico over the weekend. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. Yet another tropical wave is forecast to move into the far eastern Pacific in a few days. Environmental conditions should support some development early next week south of Central America while the system moves westward to west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Blake