987 ABNT20 KNHC 170518 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Fri Aug 17 2018 For the North Atlantic...

Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Ernesto, located several hundred miles east of Cape Race, Newfoundland. A tropical wave located about 500 miles east-southeast of the Windward Island continues to produce a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Development, if any, of this system should be slow to occur during the next day or two while it moves west-northwestward around 15 mph toward the Windward Islands.

By late Saturday, unfavorable environmental conditions should limit the chances for additional development while the system moves over the eastern Caribbean Sea. Regardless of development, this system is likely to bring locally heavy rainfall to portions of the Lesser Antilles later today and this weekend.

* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.

* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.

Forecaster Cangialosi

Click here to read more at The National Hurricane Center