Hurricane season started yesterday. WTF? A tropical depression or tropical storm is likely to develop in the Gulf of Mexico in the next day or so and soak parts of Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas into the weekend.
A sprawled-out area of low pressure has developed near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the northwest Caribbean Sea. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has deemed this system Invest 91L, which is a naming convention that's used by meteorologists to identify an area of disturbed weather that has potential to form into a tropical depression or tropical storm.
This broad, large low, known to meteorologists as a Central American gyre (CAG), includes some remnant spin and moisture from what was once Hurricane Agatha, which made a Category 2 landfall Monday, the strongest May hurricane to landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast dating to 1949.
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