000 ABPZ20 KNHC 091135 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 500 AM PDT Fri Aug 9 2019 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: Showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad area of low pressure located near the Gulf of Tehuantepec have become a little more concentrated overnight. Conditions are forecast to be conducive for some additional development over the weekend and a tropical depression could form within the next few days while the system moves west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph, just off the southwestern coast of Mexico. Regardless of development, this system could product locally heavy rainfall along portions of the southern and southwestern coast of Mexico during the next couple of days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 percent. An area of low pressure is forecast to develop several hundred miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula by early next week. Environmental conditions are expected to gradually become more conducive for development through the middle of next week while the system moves westward or west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Brown