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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Mon Oct 19 2020
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on newly formed
Tropical Storm Epsilon located over the central Atlantic several
hundred miles southeast of Bermuda.
1. A trough of low pressure has formed over the western Caribbean
Sea, which extends northward across western Cuba. The associated
shower and thunderstorm activity is located along the northern
portion of the trough axis where upper-level winds are not
conducive for significant development. This system is forecast to
move slowly westward toward the Yucatan peninsula over the next day
or two. Regardless of development, the system could bring locally
heavy rainfall to portions of Cuba through midweek.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.
Public Advisories on Tropical Storm Epsilon are issued under WMO
header WTNT32 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT2.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Storm Epsilon are issued under WMO
header WTNT22 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT2.
Forecaster Brown
Original author: NHC
