000 ABPZ20 KNHC 230548 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 PM PDT Fri Sep 22 2023 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: Central East Pacific (EP97): Showers and thunderstorms have changed little in organization in association with a broad area of low located several hundred miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Gradual development of the disturbance is likely, and a tropical depression is expected to form late this weekend or early next week while the system moves generally westward across the central and western parts of the eastern Pacific basin. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...80 percent. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi