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Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
2018-08-05 19:27:20| National Hurricane Center (East Pacific)
646 ABPZ20 KNHC 051727 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 AM PDT Sun Aug 5 2018 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Hector, located well east-southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii, and on Tropical Depression Eleven-E, located south of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. An elongated area of low pressure location about 900 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula continues to produce a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental conditions appear favorable for development, and a tropical depression is expected to form within the next day or two while this system moves slowly westward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. Satellite images indicate that the low pressure area located about 400 miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, has become better defined, and a tropical depression appears to be forming. If the current development trend continues, advisories will likely be issued this afternoon or evening on this system. The low is forecast to move slowly northwestward off the southwest coast of Mexico during the next few days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...near 100 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...near 100 percent. $$ Forecaster Brown
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