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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Tue Aug 31 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Kate, located over the central tropical Atlantic.
The Weather Prediction Center is issuing Public Advisories on
Tropical Depression Ida, located over northeastern Mississippi.
1. A well-defined low pressure system is located over the far eastern
tropical Atlantic, a couple of hundred miles west-southwest of the
coast of Guinea. Associated showers and thunderstorms continue to
show signs of organization, and environmental conditions are
conducive for additional development of this system. A tropical
depression is likely to form during the next day or so while the low
moves westward to west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high..90 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
2. A broad area of low pressure is forecast to develop over the
southwestern Caribbean Sea during the next couple of days. Some
slow development of this system is possible by the end of the week,
if the system remains over water. This system is expected to move
gradually west-northwestward or northwestward at 5 to 10 mph toward
Central America.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
Public advisories issued by the Weather Prediction Center on
Tropical Depression Ida can be found under AWIPS header TCPAT4, WMO
header WTNT34 KWNH, and on the web at http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
Forecaster Reinhart