BRIDGETOWN,
Barbados, Tuesday July 31, 2012 - The
National Hurricane Centre (NHC) is reporting that showers and thunderstorms
have become better organised in a low pressure system east-southeast of the
windward islands.
The
7:30 p.m. EST NHC report indicated that the low pressure system was located
near 9.7 north 43.0 west or about 1150 miles east-southeast of the windward
islands.
The
National Hurricane Center reports that maximum sustained winds are 30 miles per
hour and "environmental conditions are at least marginally conducive for
some gradual development of this disturbance".
The
estimated minimum central pressure for the system has dropped to 1009 mb.
Earlier
this year Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray of the Department of
Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University slightly increased their
forecast for the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane season. The season is expected to see
about 13 named storms, including 5 hurricanes, with two of them being major
during the 2012 hurricane season.
SOURCE:
http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/barbados_news/601367.html
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