T.D. Alex Moves into Southwest Gulf

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Source: The Weather Channel

T.D. Alex moves into southwest Gulf

M. Ressler, Lead Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Jun. 27, 2010 5:10 pm ET

Alex made landfall Saturday evening in Belize as a 65 mile per hour tropical storm. Now as of 4 p.m. CDT, Tropical Depression Alex with 35 mph winds is emerging into the southwest Gulf of Mexico. Alex is located about 55 miles south-southwest of Campeche, Mexico, and is moving to the west-northwest at 9 miles per hour. From now on with plenty of very warm Gulf water under it and no shear over it, Alex will be able to steadily strengthen, reaching hurricane strength by Tuesday and heading in the general direction of the northeastern Mexican Coast by midweek. With as large of a system as Alex is, some impacts should be felt in parts of South Texas even if Alex's final landfall is somewhere in Mexico. In fact, much of the Gulf of Mexico will deal with squalls, thunderstorms and locally heavy rain.

In the short term, heavy rain is expected across the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala and southern Mexico, with rainfall amounts between four to eight inches expected as well as locally heavier amounts particularly in mountainous areas.

Elsewhere in the Atlantic, there is a tropical wave interacting with an upper level trough well east of the Bahamas and well north of the Lesser Antilles. This system, however, is not expected to develop.

Read more: http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/update/index.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Any other season this storm would be dismissed as not a threat

But just for sensationalism if nothing else the M$M is making this a big deal and keeps saying that it still could turn toward the spill.

[Ex Lurker]

3. until this well is capped, any storm system is a very big deal n/t

[Purveyor]

2. 5-Day Forecast Cone

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