000 ABNT20 KNHC 120516 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Sat Oct 12 2024 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Active Systems: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Leslie, located over the central Atlantic Ocean. Near the Cabo Verde Islands (AL94): A low pressure system located a couple of hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands continues to produce an area of showers and thunderstorms on its east side. If the circulation of the system becomes better defined and the showers and thunderstorms persist, the low could become a short-lived tropical depression or storm later this morning while it moves west-northwestward. Strong upper-level winds and dry air should end the chances of development by tonight or Sunday. Heavy rains and gusty winds are occurring over the western Cabo Verde Islands, and those conditions are expected to continue for a few more hours. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi