NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Fri Oct 26 2018
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
1. A low pressure system located about 1200 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands has changed little in organization since last night. However, environmental conditions appear conducive for further development and this system will likely become a tropical or subtropical cyclone later today or tonight while it moves generally northward over the central Atlantic. After that time, the low is forecast to turn westward and remain well to the north or northeast of the Lesser Antilles through early next week.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
Additional information on this system can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service, under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and available on the Web at https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml
Forecaster Zelinsky
