A tropical depression has formed a little over 300 miles west of Manzanillo, Mexico, in the eastern Pacific. The depression could reach tropical storm strength later today as it moves toward the WNW. If it does, it would be named Gil. The westward motion of the system should keep it from threatening Mexico, however.
In the Atlantic, there are two areas being monitored for tropical development.
An area of low pressure a couple of hundred miles southeast of the Carolina coast is producing showers and storms over the Gulf Stream. Upper level conditions currently are not favorable for further development, but the low is expected to linger off the coast for the several days and drift southward, allowing conditions to become more conducive. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters are scheduled to investigate the system tomorrow.
Meanwhile, a low pressure center about halfway between the Windward Islands and west Africa is moving westward into an area more favorable for development, and could become a tropical depression within the next day or so.
Back in the eastern Pacific, an area of thunderstorms south-southwest of the Gulf of Tehuantepec is moving into an area more conducive for development, and will be closely monitored.
The weather Channel