Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Wed Jul 31, 2019
1. A tropical wave continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms stretching from Puerto Rico to the southeast Bahamas. This disturbance is forecast to move northwest to
northward during the next several days, producing locally heavy rainfall over portions of the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and Florida. Conditions could become marginally conducive for development over the weekend while the system turns northeast off the southeast U.S. coast.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.
2. A tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is producing widespread cloudiness and showers over the eastern tropical Atlantic Ocean. No significant development of this system is expected for the next few days while it moves westward at about 15 mph. Thereafter, upper-level winds are forecast to gradually become more conducive, and a tropical depression could form by early next week several hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 percent.
Forecaster Zelinsky
