A tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico seemed to be shaping up as the season's next hurricane, the National Hurricane center said. It would be called Francine.
A tropical disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was shaping up as what could be the season's next hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said early Monday. It would be called Francine and end a brief lull that hurricane-prone regions were enjoying.The hurricane center said the system is expected to become a tropical storm Monday and a hurricane before it makes landfall, likely over the northwestern U.S.
That center was about 295 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande and some 535 miles south of Cameron, Louisiana. It was crawling north-northwest at 5 mph. The disturbance had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph, well above the 39 mph needed to be officially dubbed a tropical storm but, explains CBS senior weather and climate producer David Parkinson, its center wasn't defined clearly enough yet to get that classification.
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