Daily News | Alex, first named tropical storm of the season, forms in the Gulf of Mexico
ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff PhotographerAfter soaking South Florida as a nameless but prodigious rainmaker, Alex finally early Sunday morning earned the credentials to become the first named storm of what the major forecasting services are confident will be another quite-active tropical-storm season in the Atlantic Basin.
What the National Hurricane Center had called “Potential Tropical Storm One,” which followed a due northeast path across the Gulf of Mexico from the Mexican coast to the Florida peninsula, had been forecast to become a genuine tropical storm Friday afternoon. However, it did not become Alex until it had exited Florida’s east coast. Early Sunday it was taking its peak 50-mph winds out to sea.
They are confident, however, that the season will produce more than adequate raw material with above-average numbers of named storms, those with winds of at least 39 mph, and hurricanes, with winds of 74 mph or better.Colorado State University’s Philip Klotzbach sees an 80% probability that at least one hurricane will have impacts on Florida. By comparison, the chances of one directly impacting New Jersey is less than 15%.
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