NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Mon Aug 14 2017
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Gert, located several hundred miles west-southwest of Bermuda.
1. Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with a broad trough of low pressure southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands has increased since last night. Environmental conditions are expected to be generally conducive for development of this disturbance for the next several days while it moves westward at about 15 mph over the tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.
