Tropical depression forms in the Atlantic

[jpak]

Source: Miami Herald

A storm brewing in the eastern Atlantic will likely become the fourth named storm of the 2015 hurricane season, National Hurricane Center forecasters said Tuesday.

Located 1,600 miles off the west coast of Africa, the slow-moving storm is expected to become a tropical storm today and continue strengthening over the next two days. Forecasters said the depression was moving generally westward about 13 mph, giving forecasters plenty of time to track its progress.

The system is still too far away to speculate what risk it might pose to Florida or the United States, said NHC spokesman Dennis Feltgen.

“This is a slow-mover across the Atlantic. Even in our five-day forecast, it’s not even at the Windward Islands,” he said. “So we have plenty of time to watch this.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article31388213.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/weather/hurricane/article31388213.html

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[Renew Deal]

1. "Florida or the United States"

Glad that's settled.

[Paladin]

5. Gotta love it..... (nt)

[Demeter]

2. And there's a topical depression forming in the State of Michigan

at my house....and it's only Tuesday!

Sigh. It's gonna be a long week. So far, we had 5 minutes of rain, total. The swelter continues.

[C Moon]

3. It's in no hurrycane.

[Amishman]

4. it must have problems we don't know about

I would think it would be hard to be depressed while under low pressure in the tropics