National Hurricane Center forecasters are keeping tabs Monday on an area of low pressure located far south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
National Hurricane Center forecasters are keeping tabs Monday on an area of low pressure located far south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
The area of shower and thunderstorm activity was located about 650 miles south of the peninsula as of Monday afternoon, the Miami-based forecasters said. Though strong upper-level winds have prevented development during the past 24 hours, those winds are forecast to decrease and become more conducive for tropical cyclone formation during the next day or two.
The weather system is still expected to become a tropical depression by midweek as it moves toward the northwest around 10 mph. They gave it an 80 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within 48 hours.
Elsewhere in the Eastern Pacific, no tropical cyclone formation is expected during the next five days.
Meanwhile in the Central North Pacific, no tropical cyclones are expected through Wednesday afternoon, according to forecasters with the Honolulu-based Central Pacific Hurricane Center.
The Central North Pacific and Eastern Pacific hurricane seasons continue through Nov. 30.
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