NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Mon Aug 28 2023
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Franklin, located several hundred miles southwest of Bermuda, and on Tropical Storm Idalia, located over the northwestern Caribbean Sea.
1. Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa in the next day or so. Environmental conditions appear marginally favorable for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depres-sion could form later this week while the system moves westward or west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...50 percent.
Forecaster Kelly/Brow
