The first day of hurricane season is off to a rousing start, with a former Pacific hurricane likely to reform and a second system developing just off Florida’s east coast, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning.
First, a large area of disturbed weather — the remnants of the Pacific storm, Hurricane Agatha — has a 70 percent chance of reforming into a tropical storm in the next two days and an 80 percent chance of doing so in the next five, the National Hurricane Center said in its 8 a.m. update. If the storm reforms, it will take on the name Alex.
On Monday, Agatha — the first storm of the Pacific hurricane season, which started May 15 — took form as Category 2 hurricane and made landfall in Puerto Angel, Mexico. The storm dissipated Tuesday over the rough Mexican terrain.
The National Hurricane Center believes it will reform into a tropical depression by the weekend.
The disturbed area of storms is near the Yucatan Peninsula and the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico, but projections show the system developing and passing through Florida this weekend.
Spectrum News 13 meteorologist Maureen McCann said Tuesday morning that it’s too early to tell what the system will develop into and where it would go.
On Monday, Agatha made history as the strongest hurricane ever recorded to come ashore in May during the eastern Pacific hurricane season, ripping off roofs and washing out roads before fading Tuesday in southern Mexico.
Meanwhile, a surface trough is developing off Florida’s east coast and 200 miles northeast of the central Bahamas, the National Hurricane Center said. The center gave the system a 10 percent chance of developing in the next two to five days.
Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its hurricane season predictions, stating a 65 percent chance of experiencing an above-average 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, beginning June 1 and running until Nov. 30.
