It’s an area of low atmospheric pressure, thunderstorms and wind sloshing out of the Caribbean Sea into the Gulf of Mexico.
Discover incredible Insider Deals that will make your life a little bit easierIt’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. Late Friday as it strengthened it became Tropical Depression Four. It'sin the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern and central Pacific Ocean.
Beven said an invest does not necessarily mean the system is more dangerous or close to becoming a tropical cyclone, but serves as a status marker that a disturbance has reached the point where the agency can follow it.The weather agency uses the letter “L” to designate its location in the Atlantic, Beven said. The agency cycles through the numerals 90-99 to name and keep track of the systems.
Forecasters expect the storm to keep getting stronger. Once they judge that it has passed the 39 mph mark, it will get a name: Tropical Storm Debby. Some of the rainiest tropical systems don't even make it to hurricane status, like 2001's Tropical Storm Allison, which causedForecasters started naming storms following World War II to better communicate threats to the public. Before that, storms mostly got names retrospectively, and they could vary — like the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, or the Great New England Hurricane of 1938.
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