Forecasters Friday were monitoring five areas of disturbed weather in the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific. ADVERTISING Forecasters Friday were monitoring five areas of disturbed weather in the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific. Honolulu-based Central Pacific Hurricane Center forecasters are
Forecasters Friday were monitoring five areas of disturbed weather in the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific.
Honolulu-based Central Pacific Hurricane Center forecasters are keeping tabs on three of those areas in the vicinity of the state.
The first area comprises showers and thunderstorms about 600 miles south of Honolulu. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for some development, and forecasters said there is a 80 percent chance of a tropical depression forming within the next couple of days.
A second area of showers and thunderstorms, located 1,075 miles southwest of Honolulu, could also develop into a tropical depression, forecasters said. It has a slightly lower chance of development than the storm 600 miles south of the state.
About 975 miles southeast of the Big Island, an area of disturbed weather could see some slow development during the next couple of days. However, forecasters do not expect a tropical depression to form this weekend.
Elsewhere in the Central Pacific, no tropical cyclones are expected to develop by Sunday afternoon, forecasters said.
In the Eastern Pacific, Miami-based National Hurricane Center forecasters are monitoring an area of low pressure far off the coast of Mexico, as well as the remnants of former-Tropical Storm Marty.
Showers and thunderstorms associated with the broad areas of low pressure 1,250 miles southwest of the southern tip of Baja California have become a little less organized, however, forecasters say conditions are expected to be somewhat conducive for development. They gave the area of disturbed weather a 50 percent chance of forming into a tropical depression within five days.
Because of strong upper-level winds, the remnants of Marty, located 375 miles west-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico, are not expected to reorganize during the next couple of days. Regardless, areas of heavy rain are still expected over portions of southwestern Mexico through the weekend.
Elsewhere in the Eastern Pacific, tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next five days.
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