Meet Ophelia. No, not the potential wife of Prince Hamlet as played in Shakespeare, but Tropical Storm Ophelia. The National Hurricane Center has been tracking this low pressure center for the past week, but it was not until yesterday that these showers became organized enough to categorize it as a tropical storm. She is centered about 150 miles south-southeast of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Maximum sustained winds are only at 45 miles per hour. She will continue to move west today at 13 miles per hour and then her track should start to move west-northwest.
As this picture shows, weather models are suggesting that she will stay at tropical storm strength until 2 AM Monday when she is to reach Puerto Rico.
If you look to Ophelia's west, right around the Leeward Islands, you will see another potential tropical storm in the making. When looking over visible satellite yesterday, showers were looking very disorganized. This small area of low pressure is moving west at 15 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center is not expecting development of this storm within the next 48 hours.
The next name in line for tropical storms is Philippe and he will be the 16th named storm for this year. Any guesses on how many named storms we will have for this year? Bids can be made below in the comment section. :-)
And for those of you placing bids, just a quick FYI; La Nina usually produces 14 to 19 named storms.
-Meteorologist Heather Brinkmann
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