000 ABNT20 KNHC 020539 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Sat Nov 2 2024 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Southwestern Caribbean Sea: Disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the southwestern Caribbean Sea are associated with a broad area of low pressure. Gradual development of this system is expected over the next several days, and a tropical depression is likely to form by early next week while the system moves generally northward to northwestward over the central and western Caribbean Sea. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains are possible over portions of the adjacent land areas of the western Caribbean during the next few days, including Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Cuba. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...high...80 percent. Near the Greater Antilles: A trough of low pressure extending from near Puerto Rico eastward over the adjacent waters of the Atlantic is producing a large area of showers and thunderstorms near and over portions of the Greater Antilles and the Leeward Islands. Slow development is possible during the next couple of days while the system moves west-northwestward near the Greater Antilles. Then, this system is expected to be absorbed into the low pressure area over the Caribbean Sea. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains are possible during the next few days from the northern Leeward Islands westward across Puerto Rico and Hispaniola to eastern Cuba and the southeastern Bahamas. For more information on this system, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent. North Atlantic (AL96): Showers and thunderstorms continue to show signs of organization near a low pressure system centered a few hundred miles west-northwest of the Azores. Environmental conditions could allow for additional development today and tonight, and the system could become a short-lived subtropical or tropical storm while it moves east-southeastward at 10 to 15 mph. Upper-level winds are forecast to become unfavorable for further development by late this weekend. Interests in the Azores should monitor the progress of this system. For more information, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service and Meteo France. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent. * Formation chance through 7 days...medium...60 percent. && High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php High Seas Forecasts issued by Meteo France can be found under WMO header FQNT50 LFPW and available on the web at www.meteofrance.com/previsions-meteo-marine/bulletin/grandlarge/ metarea2 $$ Forecaster Reinhart