First Tropical Weather Bulletin of the Year Is Issued

[MountainLaurel]

Source: Times-Picayune

And here we go. Here's the first special tropical weather outlook from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, for the north Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

It's an unusually early forecast of the potential formation of a tropical weather system about 460 miles northeast of Puerto Rico.

According to a "special tropical weather outlook" issued Wednesday afternoon, the low pressure system has developed shower and thunderstorm activity near its center and satellite data and ship reports indicate gale-force winds north of the center.

Slow development of the system is possible during the next few days as it moves west northwest at about 10 mph.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2011/04/first_tropical_weather_bulleti.html

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For those of you keeping score, hurricane season doesn't begin until June 1.

[ixion]

1. Yeah, it's already heated up down here in FL

so they can start anytime.

[MountainLaurel]

3. Same in New Orleans

It's been in the mid-80s.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Up here, too. Went from freezing to 80 degrees almost overnight.

the azealas never had time to fully bloom.

[AngryOldDem]

2. That's not a good sign.

Even if nothing comes of this, it says something that the dynamics are coming together so early.

[BlueJac]

4. Chill.............

it is early, I live just south of Tampa Bay. Don't panic folks!!!

[bongbong]

5. Them Are The Old Rules

Look for the hurricane belt to be extended into Trinidad within a few years.

[liberal N proud]

7. Record heat and tropical storms in the Caribbean and snow in the plains

Climate change means extreme weather patterns.