How many of the storms being tracked near the US by the National Hurricane Center have hurricane potential?
After a very quiet start to the Atlantic Hurricane season, it has gotten busy in a hurry over the past few days. First Ana formed, though it never became a very big system, and is now fighting for its very existence as it moves over Puerto Rico. That’s a system that still bears close watching, though. If it ever slows down AND becomes unentangled with land masses that have pretty steep mountains on them, it might still have a chance. Why do I say that? Look at the little wave that could over the weekend. This was a wave that tracked into the northeast Caribbean early last week, and kept moving on a general west-northwest to northwest course. Finally, once over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, it came to life, and quickly became a tropical storm before making landfall early this morning. If that feature could blow up in relatively short order, why can’t Ana again? And then there is Bill. It has grown to become a hurricane over the past 24 hours, and doesn’t appear to be anywhere close t
