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TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

1. Satellite images indicate that the large area of cloudiness and
thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave centered about 500
miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is gradually becoming
better organized. Conditions appear to be favorable for a tropical
depression to form during the next couple of days while the system
moves toward the west-northwest and then northwest toward the
open waters of the central Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent

Forecaster Avila