Phacops Rana

Phacops Rana

Thursday, August 12, 2010

The busiest part of tropical storm season

We enter the busiest time of tropical storm season this weekend. To date there have been three named storms: Hurricane Alex, Tropical Storm Bonnie, and Tropical Storm Colin.

Alex and Bonnie formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Colin formed south of the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa and curled northward. It dissipated near Bermuda.

Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico are warm enough for tropical storm formation as we head into the busy season of what forecasters say will be a heavy year for Atlantic storms.

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