It’s an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of Mexico. But by the time it dissipates, weather forecasters may have called it by five different names. First it was Invest 97L, then it was Potential Tropical Cyclone Four. Late Friday it became Tropical Depression Four.
Patrick Brafford, a beach lifeguard manager, uses a tie down strap to help secure a compact track loader and a lifeguard tower to help pull it further away from the water in preparation of potential storm at Clearwater Beach on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, in Clearwater, Fla. It’s an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea across Cuba, into the Gulf of MexicoFirst it was Invest 97L, then it was Potential Tropical Cyclone Four.
The agency’s first advisory Friday signaled the system’s growing strength, calling it Potential Tropical Cyclone Four. Late Friday, the storm became a tropical depression, signifying that it was organizing itself into a cyclone, but still had 1-minute sustained winds of less than 39 miles per hour. In the Atlantic basin, hurricanes are classified based on their wind speeds on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the weakest and 5 being the strongest. However, wind strength doesn’t signify how much tidal storm surge a hurricane could push into coastal areas, or how much rain it might bring.
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