WEATHER ALERT
US on high alert for tropical depression that could soak the south while severe thunderstorms forecast nationwide today
THE US is on high alert for a tropical depression that could saturate the south with forecasters warning of possible severe thunderstorms starting on Thursday.
Florida, Cuba and the Bahamas are particularly at risk of a heavy soaking into the weekend, meteorologists add.
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Forecasters are keeping a close eye on “disturbed weather” patterns as a result of low pressure developing near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the northwest Caribbean Sea.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warns it has “some potential to form into a tropical depression or tropical storm”, reports weather.com.
This includes moisture from Hurricane Agatha, which killed nine people in Mexico after making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Monday afternoon.
Agatha touched down with 105mph winds near the beach town of Puerto Angel on the Pacific coast, before dissipating on Tuesday as it moved inland.
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It's the strongest May hurricane to smash Mexico's Pacific coast dating back to 1949, according to meteorologists.
As a result of the remnants of Agatha, a tropical depression is likely to form in the southern Gulf of Mexico on either Thursday or Friday.
And, if this turns into a storm, it would be named 'Alex', the first moniker in the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season name list.
People in Florida have been advised to keep a close eye on developments, as tropical storm watches or warnings could be issued for part of the peninsula and western Cuba later today.
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Severe, but scattered thunderstorms could pummel the mid-Atlantic into the south as a cold front makes its way across those regions later this week, said weather.com.
Stormy weather has the "greatest potential" to mainly hit the mid-Atlantic today, with damaging wind gusts and hail from parts of Virginia into southern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.
"This could include the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia metro areas.
"A few isolated severe storms could also develop in the south. Those storms could have gusty winds as well as bursts of heavy rain," weather.com added.
Today's warning comes as millions of Americans are under a severe weather warning, as experts forecast more than a dozen storms are expected to hit the US coast this hurricane season.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict at least 14-21 major storms this hurricane season, with at least six to 10 of those storms evolving into hurricanes.
The peak of hurricane season is between August and October.
The forecast comes as deadly storms have already ripped through multiple states so far this year.
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Severe storms in Minnesota this month caused the death of two residents, including a storm chaser who was out on the job.
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Martha Llanos Rodriguez, 30, of , died when a semitrailer rear-ended a car she was riding in on Interstate 90 after Rodriguez’s vehicle stopped short to avoid downed power lines, authorities said.
Officials said Rodriguez and three other weather experts had been chasing a severe storm system that brought damaging winds, flooding, hail and reports of possible tornadoes to the southwestern part of the state.
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