New tropical depression
Posted Aug24, 2006 at 06:26 PM
The tropics are finally showing some signs of life. As Tropical Storm Debby continues to spin into open water, likely to miss the U.S. by thousands of miles, a new tropical depression has formed in the eastern Caribbean. The future track of this system, which will become Ernesto if its winds increase by 5 mph and it is upgraded to a tropical storm, would likely carry it west across the Caribbean and possibly toward the Gulf of Mexico by early next week. However, it will be fighting strong shearing winds aloft and an abnormally dry atmosphere, so don't expect explosive development into a hurricane.
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