A tropical depression formed in the Pacific Ocean on Sept. 11, and it could continue to pick up strength over the next few days.

The National Hurricane Center said in an early morning advisory on Sept. 12 that Tropical Depression Thirteen-E was located about 100 miles south-southeast of Zihuatanejo, Mexico with maximum sustained winds near 35 mph with higher gusts.

Slow strengthening is expected over the next couple of days, according to hurricane center forecasters, and the system is forecast to become a tropical storm at some point Friday, Sept. 12.

The storm is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 mph and this general motion is expected to continue for the next couple of days. On the forecast track, the center of the depression is forecast to move parallel to, but offshore of,

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