Jamiewx
(Storm Tracker)
Thu Jul 29 2004 05:14 PM
5:30pm TWO

TWO still counting both systems for development, now saying both have the potential to become tropical depressions.

Here it is a little early too

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico...

Showers and thunderstorms persist in association with a broad area
of low pressure centered in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico near
the Dry Tortugas. Conditions appear to be favorable for gradual
development...and a tropical depression could form during the next
day or two as the system moves slowly west-northwestward. An Air
Force Reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to
investigate this system tomorrow afternoon...if necessary.
The area of disturbed weather centered a few hundred miles east of
the northwestern Bahamas continues to slowly become better
organized. Upper-level winds are becoming more favorable for
development...and this system also has the potential to become a
tropical depression as it moves generally northwestward during the
next day or two. Another reconnaissance aircraft is scheduled to
investigate this system tomorrow afternoon...if necessary.

Elsewhere...tropical storm formation is not expected through Friday.