A new cold front will then push across the basin late in the weekend into early next week.

The front will lift north by Fri, bringing moderate to fresh winds in the northern Gulf through the weekend. Light to gentle winds are elsewhere N of 26N where seas are in the 1-4 ft range.įor the forecast, the cold front is forecast to stall later this morning, and fresh to locally strong northerly winds and rough seas over the Bay of Campeche will diminish as well. Moderate to locally fresh N to NE winds follow the front S of 26N with locally strong winds still likely in the Bay of Campeche where rough seas to 9 ft prevails. Surface ridging continues to build in the wake of a cold front that this morning extends from Marco Island, Florida to the northern Yucatan Peninsula. Scattered moderate isolated strong convection is from 03N to 08N between 27W and 41W. The monsoon trough extends from 11N16W to 07N18W where the ITCZ continues to 04N30W to 03N43W. Please, read the latest High Seas Forecast, that is issued by the National Hurricane Center, at the website - and the latest Offshore Waters Forecast to the west of 55W, at for details about the gale-force wind warning. The chances of subtropical or tropical development should end by early next week when the system moves over cooler waters. This system could become a subtropical or tropical storm late this week or over the weekend while it loses its frontal characteristics and moves northeastward. Gale force winds are forecast to end tonight, however strong to near gale force winds will accompany this low through Sat. The low will track SE today and tonight while it weakens and then it will move NE and N of the area on Sat. These seas covers approximately the waters N of 17N between 35W and 66W, highest in the vicinity of the low. Rough seas in long period N to NW swell associated with the frontal system and low range between 8 to 18 ft. An earlier scatterometer pass confirmed gale- force SW winds in the SE quadrant of the low. Then, a cold front extends from the low SW to 17N50W where it transitions to a stationary front that continues to the northern Leeward Islands adjacent waters. In the subtropical central Atlantic waters, a stationary front extends from 31N42W to a 1004 mb low near 27N43W.

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