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Eastern North Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook
2018-10-19 01:54:56| National Hurricane Center (East Pacific)
000 ABPZ20 KNHC 182354 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 500 PM PDT Thu Oct 18 2018 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: A trough of low pressure continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms a couple of hundred miles south of the southern coast of Mexico. This system has become less organized since yesterday, however, environmental conditions are expected to become more favorable for development and a tropical depression is still likely to form over the weekend or early next week while the system moves generally west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph, near or just offshore the coast of southern Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent. Another trough of low pressure has developed within a large area of disturbed weather that extends from Central America westward to south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Some gradual development of this system is possible over the next few days while it moves slowly westward, near the coast of southern Mexico. Additional information on the broad area of disturbed weather that extends from Central America to south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. && High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service are available under AWIPS header NFDHSFEPI, WMO header FZPN02 KWBC, and on the web at https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFEPI.shtml. $$ Forecaster Zelinsky
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