Here we go...Hurricane Ernesto - 08/25/06 07:53 PM
TD 5 Likely To Become Ernesto, Could Affect Midweek Weather 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
Tropical Depression 5 formed near the Windward Islands on Thursday -- and meteorologists said it could become Tropical Storm Ernesto before Friday night.
Aircraft reconnaissance found Thursday afternoon that a closed circulation formed in association with the strong tropical wave moving though the Windward Islands.
At 11 a.m., the depression still had not reached tropical strength. It had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph and was centered 1,256 miles southeast of Miami. The depression is expected to move west or west-northwest and it is likely intensify into the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is not well-organized or symetrical, keeping it a depression reather than a a storm.
It is still too early to predict the path of the storm, and there is a possibility that wind shear that it will encounter in the southern Caribbean could keep it from strengthening or even rip it apart. But, if the shear stops being a factor, or if the storm is able to hold together, the National Hurricane Center thinks it could reach hurricane strength.
There are no watches or warning associated with Tropical Depression 5 at the moment, but that could change as the storm intensifies.
Tropical Depression 5 formed near the Windward Islands on Thursday -- and meteorologists said it could become Tropical Storm Ernesto before Friday night.
Aircraft reconnaissance found Thursday afternoon that a closed circulation formed in association with the strong tropical wave moving though the Windward Islands.
At 11 a.m., the depression still had not reached tropical strength. It had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph and was centered 1,256 miles southeast of Miami. The depression is expected to move west or west-northwest and it is likely intensify into the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. It is not well-organized or symetrical, keeping it a depression reather than a a storm.
It is still too early to predict the path of the storm, and there is a possibility that wind shear that it will encounter in the southern Caribbean could keep it from strengthening or even rip it apart. But, if the shear stops being a factor, or if the storm is able to hold together, the National Hurricane Center thinks it could reach hurricane strength.
There are no watches or warning associated with Tropical Depression 5 at the moment, but that could change as the storm intensifies.