Overview

• The NHC says EP93, a broad low several hundred miles south-southwest of Baja California, is likely to organize this weekend as it moves west-northwest.
• EP93 carries a 60% chance of formation in the next 48 hours, according to the latest advisory late Thursday local time.
• A separate area off southern Mexico could form this weekend or early next week, with a 60% seven-day chance to become a tropical depression by midweek as it tracks offshore.
• In the Atlantic, a tropical wave expected to emerge off Africa on Aug. 31 has a 20% chance of development over seven days while moving west to west-northwest.
• Fernand has become post-tropical in the Atlantic, Juliette is a remnant low in the Pacific, and NOAA’s outlook calls for 13–18 named storms with 5–9 hurricanes and 2–5 major this season.