Tropical Update – 5/19

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Wed May 19 2021

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

1. A non-tropical low pressure system is forecast to develop a few 
hundred miles northeast of Bermuda by tomorrow afternoon and 
produce gale-force winds. The low is then forecast to move 
west-southwestward over warmer waters on Friday and could become a 
short-lived subtropical cyclone over the weekend to the northeast 
of Bermuda.  The system is expected to move toward the north and 
northeast into a more hostile environment by Monday.  For more 
information on this system, please see High Seas forecasts issued 
by the Ocean Prediction Center.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent.

High Seas Forecasts for this system can be found under AWIPS header 
NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and online at 
ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php

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