Atlantic Hurricane Season Firing Up
July 20, 2008
St. Maarten 1pm, July 20: While TS Bertha weakens and has become extratropical the rest of the Atlantic and Caribbean basin is rapidly moving into overdrive in reaching the most tropical systems ever to form this early in the season.
The third tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Cristobal, formed off the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, with gale-force winds and heavy rains expected to lash the Carolinas as the storm grazes the shoreline on a northeasterly path, while TS #4, Dolly has formed as a strong and large system just before reaching the Yucatan peninsula, some 230 miles southeast of Cozumel, Mexico.
In the far Atlantic, just rolling off the coast of Africa and some 350 miles southeast of the Cape Verde Islands, one of the largest waves in recent history is encountering a favorable climate to form quickly into a tropical system.
Although TS Bertha has become extratropical and will not be mentioned anymore by the National Hurricane Center, still makes it 3 active systems and if the Large wave at the African coast reaches TS strength within the next day a record 4 tropical systems for july would beat the july 1996 record that, notably had also a named storm called Bertha.
TS Dolly is forecasted to strenghten just before landfall and seeing that it will emerge in the Gulf of Mexico and could rather rapidly further develop, residents in Texas and Mexico should closely monitor Dolly.
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