On Saturday morning, hurricane forecasts were tracking one tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico and two in the Atlantic Ocean. Two were given a high chance of strengthening in tropical depressions.
At 7 a.m., the Gulf disturbance was near Veracruz, Mexico, and produced showers and storms, the National Hurricane Center said. It was expected to drift northwest and north across the Mexican country over the next two days, according to forecasts.
They gave it a 70% chance of becoming a tropical depression at least on Monday and an 80% chance on Thursday if it stays on the water. Regardless of reinforcement, Louisiana and Texas can receive heavy rains.
A storm may develop in the shaded area of the graph above. It’s not a forecast trail. The National Hurricane Center publishes a clue when a tropical depression is forming or is about to form.
The Atlantic riots took place on the coast of Senegal. The disturbance most likely to form a depression in the next five days is likely to cause gusty winds and heavy rains located in the Cape Verde Islands over the next two days. The other disturbance was expected to continue advancing westward across the Atlantic during the clean week.
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Storm categories
The categories, in order of increasing strength, are tropical depression, tropical storm and hurricane (categories 1 to 5).
On the wind scale of Hurricane Saffir-Simpson, the wind categories are:
- Tropical Storm – 39 to 73 mph
- Category 1 Hurricane – 74 to 95 mph
- Category 2- Hurricane 96 to 110 mph
- Category 3 hurricane (major hurricane) – From 111 to 129 mph
- Category 4 hurricane (major) – 130-156 mph
- Category 5 hurricane (major) – 157 mph and above
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Carlie Kollath Wells contributed to this story.