MIAMI, United States. — Tropical depression number seven of the current cyclonic season formed this Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean, according to the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC, for its acronym in English).
At 11 a.m. today, the system was at 16.6 degrees north latitude and 49.6 degrees west longitude, about 1,300 km from the Leeward Islands.
The last report The NHC indicates that the tropical depression exhibited maximum sustained winds of 55 kilometers per hour (km/h) and was moving west at a rate of 22 km/h.
Although no coastal watch notices have yet been issued, that US federal agency called on authorities and inhabitants of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to monitor the agency’s progress.
NHC forecast models warn that the center of the system will move across the Leeward Islands on Friday night, then transit over the Virgins and Puerto Rico over the weekend.
“Some gradual strengthening is forecast over the next day and the depression is forecast to become a tropical storm tonight or Thursday,” the bulletin added.
The Cuban Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) also warned about the phenomenon in a Tropical Cyclone Warning Posted this morning.
“During today’s morning, the center of low pressure that was embedded in the axis of a tropical wave located to the east of the Lesser Antilles Arc, continued to gain in organization and became the seventh tropical depression of the current cyclonic season” , reviewed that institution.
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