10am EDT Tuesday (May 5th): 40% chance through 5 days for disturbance near the Bahamas
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 5/5/2015, 1:25 pm


"SPECIAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1000 AM EDT TUE MAY 5 2015

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

1. A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending
from the northwestern Caribbean Sea across Cuba, southern Florida,
and the Bahamas is associated with an upper-level trough and a weak
surface trough. An area of low pressure is expected to form in
association with this disturbance during the next day or two. The
low could gradually acquire subtropical characteristics over the
next few days while it moves generally northward at a slow forward
speed. For additional information on this system, see High Seas
Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. The next Special
Tropical Weather Outlook will be issued on this system by 11 AM EDT
Wednesday.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent

High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service are
available under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and
on the Web at http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml.

Forecaster Brennan"

Atlantic 5-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=5

Satellite:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/trop-atl.html
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10am EDT Tuesday (May 5th): 40% chance through 5 days for disturbance near the Bahamas - Chris in Tampa, 5/5/2015, 1:25 pm
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