There are two systems brewing off the southern coast of Mexico that could strengthen into tropical depressions as soon as this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Friday morning.
According to the hurricane center, showers and thunderstorms have "increased a little on the eastern side of a broad trough of low pressure" located a few hundred miles south of southern Mexico.
The NHC says environmental conditions appear conducive for additional development and a "short-lived tropical depression is likely to form over the weekend" while the system moves west-northwestward just off the coast of Mexico.
"Interests in southern and southwestern Mexico should monitor the progress of this system," hurricane center forecasters said Friday, giving the system a 70% chance of formation through the next seven days.
Additionally, the NHC said a "broad area of low pressure" has formed along the western side of the elongated trough south of Mexico. The hurricane center said "continued gradual development" of the system is expected and a tropical depression is "likely to form over the weekend or early next week."
