Full 8pm update.
1. Showers and thunderstorms associated with a low pressure area
located a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands are
becoming better organized. Environmental conditions are expected
to remain conducive for development, and a tropical depression is
likely to form during the next couple of days while system moves
generally westward at about 15 mph across the eastern tropical
Atlantic Ocean.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.
2. A trough of low pressure located a couple of hundred miles
north-northeast of the southeastern Bahamas is producing a large
area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental
conditions are forecast to be marginally conducive for gradual
development during the next few days, and a tropical depression is
likely to form while the system moves north-northwestward to
northward across the western Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent.
