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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
1100 AM PDT Fri Oct 19 2018

For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude:

The National Hurricane Center has initiated advisories on Tropical
Depression Twenty-Three-E, located just offshore of the Pacific
coast of Guatemala.

1. Showers and thunderstorms associated with an area of low pressure
centered a few hundred miles south-southwest of Zihuatanejo, Mexico,
are gradually becoming better organized.  Environmental conditions
are expected to become increasingly favorable for further
development, and a tropical depression is expected to form later
today or tomorrow while the low moves west-northwestward at about 10
mph, well offshore of the coast of southwestern Mexico.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.

Public Advisories on Tropical Depression Twenty-Three-E are issued
under WMO header WTPZ33 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPEP3.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Depression Twenty-Three-E are issued
under WMO header WTPZ23 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMEP3.

Forecaster Berg