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Seems Accuweather's Senior Meteorologists is starting to hint at a Caribbean feature as well: "Tropical Storm Alma formed in the eastern Pacific early Thursday and made landfall along the Nicaraguan coast Thursday afternoon. Alma is tracking to the north and could cross the northwest Caribbean between Honduras and Belize for a brief time before turning more to the northwest and west over the weekend. It will cause life-threatening flooding rains and mudslides across central America through the weekend. Alma formed within a larger trough of low pressure that extended from the eastern Pacific into the southwestern Caribbean and this broad trough of low pressure may spawn another tropical feature in the western Caribbean next week. A zone of high pressure to the north over the Gulf of Mexico would have to break down before any significant northward movement would occur and does not appear likely through early to middle part of next week. Some models suggest that an upper trough dips southward into the northern Gulf of Mexico later next week, perhaps steering a tropical system toward Florida. In the meantime, clusters of showers and thunderstorms will cross the western Caribbean and areas in and near the zone of showers and thunderstorms will endure locally heavy rainfall over a multi-day period." By AccuWeather.com Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski and Senior Meteorologist Bob Smerbeck Should be interesting next week. |