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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Thu Sep 16 2021
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on
Post-Tropical Cyclone Nicholas, located near the central coast of
Louisiana.
1. Showers and thunderstorms have become slightly less organized in
association with a tropical wave located a little more than 800
miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. However,
environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for
development during the next few days, and a tropical depression is
still likely to form late this week or this weekend. This system
is expected to move westward to west-northwestward across the
tropical Atlantic during the next several days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent.
2. Shower and thunderstorm activity has increased this morning over
the eastern portion of a broad area of low pressure located about
250 miles south-southeast of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Environmental conditions are expected to become more conducive for
development, and a tropical depression is still likely to form
during the next day or two while the system moves northward to
north-northeastward off the southeast and mid-Atlantic U.S. coasts.
Regardless of development, this system could bring high surf to
portions of the southeast and mid-Atlantic U.S. coasts later this
week and this weekend. Additional information on this system,
including gale warnings, can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued
by the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center. An Air Force Reserve
reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to investigate the disturbance
this afternoon.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent.
3. Showers and thunderstorms over the far eastern tropical Atlantic
are associated with a tropical wave that will move off the west
coast of Africa today. Environmental conditions are forecast to be
marginally conducive for some gradual development over the next few
days while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward over
the far eastern Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
Public advisories issued by the Weather Prediction Center on
Post-Tropical Cyclone Nicholas can be found under AWIPS header
TCPAT4, WMO header WTNT34 KWNH, and on the web at
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov or hurricanes.gov
High Seas Forecasts for the system off the Outer Banks of North
Carolina issued by the NOAA Ocean Prediction Center can be found
under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and online at
ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php
Forecaster Brown