Tropical Weather Outlook 530 pm Thu Jul 29

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Tropical Weather Outlook

National Hurricane Center Miami Fl

530 Pm edt Thu Jul 29 2004

 

For The North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf Of Mexico...

 

Showers and thunderstorms persist in association with a broad area

of low pressure centered in the Southeastern Gulf Of Mexico near

the Dry Tortugas. Conditions appear to be favorable for gradual

development...and a tropical depression could form during the next

day or two as the system moves slowly west-northwestward. An Air

Force Reserve Unit Reconnaissance Aircraft is scheduled to

investigate this system tomorrow afternoon...if necessary.

 

The area of disturbed weather centered a few jundred miles east of

the northwestern Bahamas continues to slowly become better

organized. Upper-level winds are becoming more favorable for

development...and this system also has the potential to become a

tropical depression as it moves generally northwestward during the

next day or two. Another reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to

investigate this system tomorrow afternoon...if necessary.

 

Elsewhere...tropical storm formation is not expected through Friday.

 

Forecaster Franklin