Seventh depression of season forms in Atlantic

| 09/08/2012

gordon1.JPG(CNS): The National Hurricane Center in Miami is reporting on a newly formed weather system in the tropical Atlantic that could become a tropical storm by Friday. The depression which formed this afternoon could be in the Cayman area next Tuesday, night according to the centre’s forecast of the system's potential track. At 4pm on Thursday tropical depression seven was about 1155 miles east of the Windward Islands with maximum sustained winds of 35 MPH.

The system is moving at 20 MPH towards the west and forecasters said this general motion was expected to continue for the next 48 hours. The NHC said slow strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.

If it becomes Tropical Storm Gordon, it will be the season's seventh named storm.

See NHC for more details

 

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  1. Just Sayin' says:

    Every time our esteemed leader opens his mouth another depression forms.