Tropical Weather Outlook

special NWS Tropical Prediction Center National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL 350 pm est tue dec 21 2010

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

1. A small low pressure system located just west of Barbados is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Upper-level winds are not conducive for significant development to occur, and conditions are expected to remain unfavorable for tropical cyclone formation over the next several days. There is a low chance, near 0 percent, of this system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours as it moves toward the west-northwest or northwest at 10 to 15 mph. However, this system will enhance rainfall and winds across portions of the Windward Islands today and across much of the lesser antilles tomorrow.

This will be the last special tropical weather outlook issued on this disturbance. Additional information on this system can be found in high seas forecasts issued by the National Weather Service, under AWIPS header nfdhsfat1 and WMO header fznt01 kwbc.

Elsewhere, tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next 48 hours.