STORM WATCH

Here we go..... tis the season. The waters of the Atlantic in South Florida are 89 degrees. It amazes me the water gets that warm. But it does. I imagine the waters of the Gulf are about the same temperature. The warmer the water, the greater the threat of hurricanes forming in them.

First tropical depression of year forms

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

And so it begins. The first tropical depression of the 2006 season formed this morning in the northwestern Caribbean, and folks in the eastern Gulf of Mexico are warned to monitor its progress. The depression could become Tropical Storm Alberto later today.

Read and track here

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