Tropical Atlantic Basin
Tropical Development Next Five Days ...
Not One But Three Tropical Systems in the Atlantic ...
Three trouble spots exist across the Atlantic Basin at the present time ...
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Tropical Depression 2 ( T.D. 2 ) bekommt bald den Namen Ana
The second tropical depression in the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season
formed Tuesday morning and it could be named Ana within the next 24 hours ...
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For den Montag 17.08.2009
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Eastern Atlantic Lights Up
The fuel for monster hurricanes comes from heat stored in the ocean.
This heat is liberated into a developing storm through evaporation and condensation.
In general the warmer the sea surface the more effective this process
is and the stronger the storm becomes.
The inner warmth of a hurricane is critical to storm intensity in that it creates
a large pressure gradient which in turn produces high winds.
At the present time the warmth stored in the ocean has yet to be
tapped by any tropical system.
That means the storms located in the Eastern Atlantic now
have a huge expanse of warm water to cross before they reach any land.
The general consensus among AccuWeather meteorologists is that both
these disturbances will become hurricanes in the days ahead.
Furthermore at least one of these storms is likely to threaten the East Coast
of the United States toward the end of next week.
AccuWeather Expert Senior Meteorologist John Kocet
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Tropical Depression Two is struggling.
The depression still has a good chance of becoming the Atlantic
hurricane season first named storm Ana this week
but the dry Saharan air that surrounds the storm
combined with moderately high levels of wind shear
are interfering with the storm's organization
