Eastern Pacific Tropical Weather Outlook

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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
1100 AM PDT Mon Aug 31 2026
For the eastern and central North Pacific east of 180 longitude:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane 
Karina, located well west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja 
California Peninsula, and on Tropical Storm Lowell, located well 
east-southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Well Offshore of Southwestern Mexico (EP95):
Showers and thunderstorms associated with a broad area of low 
pressure located several hundred miles south-southwest of the coast 
of southwestern Mexico are becoming better organized. The 
environmental conditions are conducive for development, and a 
tropical depression or tropical storm is expected to form later 
today or tonight as the system moves northwestward around 10 mph. 
For more information, including storm warnings, please see High 
Seas forecast issued by National Weather Service. 
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...high...90 percent.
Central Pacific:
An area of low pressure could form well south or southwest of the 
Hawaiian Islands in a few days. Some gradual development is possible 
thereafter while it moves slowly and erratically.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.
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High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service
can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFEPI, WMO header FZPN02 
KWBC, and on the web at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFEPI.php