At 11AM EDT, or three days and thirteen hours before the official beginning of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season, the National Hurricane Center issued a public advisory on its first storm of the season. Tropical Depression One formed from a small low pressure system that had been spinning over the Gulf Stream for the past few days. Yesterday, the NHC did not expect this system to develop, but convection arose around the circulation low pressure system last night and early this morning. TD One is expected to become Tropical Storm Ana before it becomes extratropical over the cold waters of the N. Atlantic. Fortunately, TD One is not expect to impact any land masses as it moves NE away from the United States.
Update (6/29/09 6:30 PM): The NHC issued its final advisory on TD One which has lost its tropical characteristics over the cold waters of the northern Atlantic today. It seems like we are just going to have to wait until the official start of the season before we see Ana form. I'll try my best to keep posting whenever there is a storm in the Atlantic this season.
(satellite image courtesy of NOAA and the National Hurricane Center)
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