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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 PM EDT Thu Sep 27 2018

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Kirk, centered very near St. Lucia.

1. Post-Tropical Cyclone Leslie, located over the central Atlantic
Ocean several hundred miles west of the Azores, remains a powerful
non-tropical low with storm-force winds.  The associated shower
activity has gradually become better organized around the low's
center since yesterday, and Leslie is expected to again become a
subtropical storm, or possibly a tropical storm, on Friday while it
moves west-southwestward at about 10 mph over the north-central
Atlantic.  For more information on this system, see High Seas
Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.

2. Shower activity has changed little in organization near an area of
disturbed weather located about 300 miles south-southwest of
Halifax, Nova Scotia.  This system is expected to merge with a
frontal system and move north-northeastward over increasingly colder
waters overnight, and no additional development is forecast.  For
more information on this system, see High Seas Forecasts issued by
the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...near 0 percent.

High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service can be
found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and
on the Web at https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml.

Forecaster Berg