NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 AM EDT SAT OCT 1 2016
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane
Matthew, located over the south-central Caribbean Sea.
1. A broad area of low pressure, associated with a tropical wave, is
producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms and winds to
near tropical storm force over the central tropical Atlantic several
hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles. Development, if any, of
this system is expected to be slow to occur due to strong upper-
level winds while the low moves northwestward at 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent
Forecaster Cangialosi
