Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Wed Aug 9 2017
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Franklin, located over the Bay of Campeche.
1. Shower activity has increased a little this morning in association with a trough of low pressure located about 400 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Significant development of this system is not expected during the next couple of days due to unfavorable environmental conditions. However, conditions are forecast to become somewhat conducive for development of this system late this week and this weekend while it moves west-northwestward to northwestward over the western Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent.
Forecaster Cangialosi
