NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Sun Aug 2 2020
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Isaias, located between the northwestern Bahamas and southeastern Florida.
- Showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave located a few hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands have changed little in organization this morning. However, environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for additional development during the next few days, and a tropical depression could form by the middle of the week. This system is forecast to turn northwestward and then northward over the western Atlantic, passing north of the Leeward Islands on Monday and Tuesday.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...60 percent.
