Storm Alex forms well north of Haiti, could threaten Washington D.C. this weekend
May 24, 2010
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Storm Alex forms well north of Haiti, could threaten Washington D.C. this weekend

Haiti Action.net - Port au Prince, Haiti — Just in time for Hurricane Preparedness Week a "complex elongated low pressure" zone which could become "Tropical Storm Alex" is forming off the East Coast of the U.S. in unusually warm waters.

The slowly organizing storm system has been wandering around the Bermuda Triangle for the past five days. Currently, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami gives the system a conservative 30% chance of forming into an more organized subTropical Storm, in the next 48 hours, to become the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Even though the NHC hasn't officially named the storm "ALEX," satellite overlays and models hint that the sustained winds might have already passed the 39mph mark — that could have been verified if a Hurricane Hunter weather reconnaissance aircraft were monitoring the only storm system near the USA that they were designed to monitor.

If Invest 90L — it's official designation before ALEX — is expected to move northwest towards Washington D.C., but is more likely to start taking a more westerly turn soon an then slowly arc up along the eastern seaboard and gain strength in the tongue of warm water licking the east coast turning NOAA's Hurricane Preparedness Week into more than just an exercise.

In Port au Prince most will see stronger rains arrive before this weekend and any talk of "hurricane preparedness" just makes them more nervous. Hurricane forecasters are expecting this year to a more active Hurricane Season due to a combination of current conditions like the anomalous warming of Atlantic tropical sea surface temperatures described above. Currently, there is another very warm region just south of the Cape Verde Islands off of the west coast of Africa where many of the stronger hurricanes that have landed on Haiti were born.

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While the wind shear and other conditions in the path of 90L are just as likely to dissipate this storm system during the next couple of days the region is currently under a Gale Warning from the Florida Keys to Chesapeake Bay.

The NOAA Data Buoy closest to the storm — 41047 — is showing wind gusts up to 20 mph, a significant wave height up to 20 feet with the atmospheric pressure steadily dropping. In the same region the NOAA is forecasting winds of 30 to 45 mph and seas up to 20 feet.

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