The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on major Hurricane Felicia, located over the open waters of the eastern North Pacific Ocean more than 900 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
Elsewhere, a broad area of low pressure is located several hundred miles south of the coast of southern Mexico, producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms.
Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for gradual development during the next several days, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the weekend and move westward or west-northwestward at around 15 mph, a few hundred miles offshore of the southwestern coast of Mexico.
It has a high (80 percent) chance of formation during the next 48 hours and a high (90 percent) chance during the next five days. The Atlantic basin is quiet.
