A low-pressure system pushing northwest through the Gulf of Mexico contains a sturdy probability of turning into a tropical cyclone within the next 2 days and threatening U.S. states on northern coast of the gulf, the National Hurricane Center said on Thursday.
The system, currently over the central a part of the gulf, already has prompted some major international oil firms to evacuate employees from offshore oil platforms.
The Miami-based hurricane center said the low pressure space was manufacturing an oversized space of clouds, thunderstorms and gusty winds because it headed slowly to the northwest.
"This system contains a high probability ... 70 percent ... of turning into a tropical cyclone throughout following forty eight hours ... Interests along the whole northern Gulf of Mexico coast ought to monitor the progress of this disturbance," the NHC said.
Some pc models showed the developing system, which might be known as Lee if it became a tropical storm, might omit the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Lee are going to be the twelfth named storm of the busy 2011 Atlantic hurricane season.
Texas is within the grip of a severe drought and rains from the developing weather system might bring some relief.
Meanwhile, still so much east out over the Atlantic, Hurricane Katia fashioned late on Wednesday and was churning west with winds of seventy five miles per hour (120 km per hour) however posing no immediate threat to land.
At 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT), Katia was located regarding one,065 miles (1,710 km) east of the Caribbean's Leeward Islands.
After Hurricane Irene rampaged up the U.S. East Coast over the weekend, killing a minimum of forty individuals, authorities on the U.S. Atlantic seaboard are monitoring Katia to ascertain that path it takes.
The NHC forecast shows Katia turning into a significant hurricane by the weekend however sees its center missing the Caribbean islands on its northwestward track. Forecasters say it's still too early to mention with certainty that the hurricane poses no threat to the U.S. jap seaboard.
However, some long-range pc models, which might be off by many miles (kilometres), show Katia eventually swinging north toward the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, faraway from the U.S. coast.
The Atlantic hurricane season generally brings eleven or twelve named storms. Katia is already the eleventh and with 1/2 the season still ahead, it's shaping up to be the unusually busy year that was predicted. (Additional reporting by Erwin Seba and Kristen Hays in Houston; Editing by Bill Trott)
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