000 ABNT20 KNHC 091753 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 PM EDT Wed Oct 9 2024 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Active Systems: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Leslie, located over the central subtropical Atlantic Ocean, and on Hurricane Milton, located over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. Southwestern Atlantic (AL93): Showers and thunderstorms associated with a gale-force non-tropical low pressure system located less than 300 miles west-southwest of Bermuda remain disorganized. Environmental conditions are becoming less favorable for tropical or subtropical development today while the low moves northeastward to east-northeastward at around 15 mph. Upper-level winds are expected to become too strong for further development tonight or on Thursday. Additional information on this system, including gale warnings, can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...30 percent. Eastern Tropical Atlantic: A tropical wave is expected to move off the west coast of Africa late tonight or early Thursday. Afterward, environmental conditions appear only marginally favorable for some limited development of this system while it moves westward or west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic and through the Cabo Verde Islands on Friday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent. && High Seas Forecasts are issued by the National Weather Service under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1 and WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php $$ Forecaster Hagen