000 ABPZ20 KNHC 060517 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 PM PDT Sat Jun 5 2021 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: Showers and thunderstorms have become better organized during the past few hours in association with an area of low pressure located about 450 miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. In addition, satellite images suggest that the low-level circulation is gradually becoming better defined. This system will likely become a tropical depression on Sunday while it moves slowly westward. Environmental conditions are expected to become less conducive for additional development in a couple of days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. A broad trough of low pressure is expected to form a couple of hundred miles south of the coasts of El Salvador and Guatemala in a few days. Gradual development of this system is possible thereafter while it drifts northwestward through the end of next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi