

Central Pacific Hurricane Center wrote:Issued: Oct 18, 2012 2:00 pm HST
For the central north Pacific, between 140°W and 180.
1. A surface trough about 900 miles south of Kauai is moving west slowly. Thunderstorms are flaring up along the trough but there is little sign of a circulation. There is a low chance, 10 percent, of this system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours.
Elsewhere, no tropical cyclones are expected through Saturday afternoon.
MORRISON