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The declaration was made on Saturday and is intended to give communities as much time as possible to prepare for a impacts from a tropical system next week. Tropical Storm Idalia formed shortly after 11 a.m. on Sunday according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
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A disturbance in the Caribbean Sea that will be entering the Gulf of Mexico is prompting government officials to advise residents of the potential storm impacts they could face in the following days.
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The Sunday evening forecast from the National Hurricane Center reported location and movement of Tropical Storm Emily, Tropical Storm Franklin and Tropical Depression 6.The NHC forecast other systems being watched, with TS Emily, TS Franklin and TD 6 making moves to head out into the Atlantic. Meanwhile, a Gulf-bound system continued toward the west coast of Mexico.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Hurricane Center reported Sunday night that they were monitoring two areas in the east-central tropical Atlantic.
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With Tropical Storm Don spinning way out in the central Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center is now watching a small area of low pressure several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands that could become Tropical Depression Emily at some point.
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Officials at the National Hurricane Center in Miami announced early on Friday morning that an area of low pressure centered over 1000 miles west of the Azores had developed enough to be classified as a subtropical storm. Its name: Don.
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Saildrone and NOAA kicked off the third-annual Atlantic Hurricane mission this week with an event at NOAA’s Aircraft Operations Center in Lakeland, Florida, where all the tools NOAA is using to study hurricanes were on display.
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“The Atlantic is awfully warm this year,” said Kerry Emanuel, a meteorologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, adding that it’s partly a result of global warming, natural variability and the ocean’s recovering from sulfate aerosols pollution that cooled it decades ago. Emanuel noted that in the entire Atlantic Ocean, not just the tropical Atlantic, it’s not unusual to have storms in June.
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Tropical Storm Bret strengthened overnight with sustained winds of 70 MPH. Tropical Depression Four formed in the Central Atlantic overnight and is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Cindy later today.
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Environmental conditions allowed for additional development of a tropical wave that pushed off African last week and Tropical Depression Three formed Monday and then grew into Tropical Storm Bret by Monday afternoon.