The National Hurricane Center (NHC) issued a statement earlier this evening about the remnants of former Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Alma. The text of the statement is posted below.
Interesting to see the tropics become active with the 2008 hurricane season about to begin. While disturbances do cross Central America/southern Mexico from time to time, they don’t always develop “on the other side.”
-Brian-
SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 PM EDT FRI MAY 30 2008
AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE…ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF FORMER
EASTERN PACIFIC TROPICAL STORM ALMA…IS CENTERED OVER THE GULF OF
HONDURAS ABOUT 50 MILES EAST OF THE COAST OF BELIZE. DEVELOPMENT
OF THIS SYSTEM APPEARS UNLIKELY DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO AS IT
MOVES SLOWLY WESTWARD OR WEST-NORTHWESTWARD OVER THE SOUTHERN
YUCATAN PENINSULA. NEVERTHELESS…LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS
ARE POSSIBLE DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS OVER PORTIONS OF
HONDURAS…EL SALVADOR…GUATELAMALA…BELIZE…AND SOUTHEASTERN
MEXICO. FUTURE TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED ON
THIS SYSTEM AS NECESSARY.
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FORECASTER KNABB/BLAKE
