000 ABPZ20 KNHC 061755 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 AM PDT Sun Jun 6 2021 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: Satellite imagery indicates that an area of low pressure located several hundred miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico is producing an organized area of showers and thunderstorms and could be developing a better-defined surface circulation. This system will likely become a tropical depression by tonight while it moves slowly westward. Upper-level winds are expected to become less favorable 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 southern Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala in a few days. Environmental conditions appear favorable for some development, and a tropical depression could develop by the end of the week as the system moves slowly northwestward or northward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent. $$ Forecaster Reinhart/Blake