1st Storm of Alantic Hurricane Season: Big Bang or Damp Whimper?
Posted by feww on June 14, 2010
Large, Well Organized, Low Pressure System 975 Miles WSW of Cape Verde Islands Moving NW at 15 MPH
A large, well-organized, low pressure system located about 1,000 miles WSW of the Cape Verde islands is moving northwestward at up to 15 MPH, NWS TPC/National Hurricane Center said.
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The system could become a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours, with a probability of 60 percent, the center added.
The system “is producing widespread cloudiness along with some showers and thunderstorms.”
Satellite images show a second system tailing the first.
Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Atlantic and East Pacific Oceans
Latest Global Montage (UW-SSEC)
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