000 ABPZ20 KNHC 101731 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 AM PDT Mon Aug 10 2020 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Elida, located a few hundred miles south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms associated with a trough of low pressure are located about 1500 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. An area of low pressure is expected to form from this system in a couple of days, and it could become a tropical depression late this week. The system is expected to move slowly westward toward the central Pacific basin during the next several days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent. An area of low pressure is forecast to develop well offshore the southwestern coast of Mexico around the middle of the week. Gradual development is possible thereafter, and this system could also become a tropical depression by late this week while it moves generally west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent. Another area of low pressure is expected to form by the end of the week over the far eastern portion of the basin to the south of the coast of Central America. Gradual development of this system is possible this weekend while it moves generally west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi