What once was a tropical storm, Ophelia has regained enough strength to become a tropical depression. After organizing to be a tropical storm last Tuesday, Ophelia's lifespan was not one for the books. It was last weekend that she showed signs of weakening and eventually could not meet the criteria to maintain her name. But as several days passed, the remnants of Ophelia showed that it was not dying without a fight.
Ophelia is currently located about 200 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands. Her maximum sustained winds are 50 miles per hour. She continues to move to the north-northwest at about 3 miles per hour.
This is the track that the weather models are predicting. She looks to continue strengthening to a category 1 hurricane by Saturday morning.
~Meteorologist Heather Brinkmann
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