At 11 a.m. EDT today, August 2, the National Hurricane Center proclaimed that the low pressure area located about 1050 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, near latitude 12.6 north and longitude 41.1 west had organized into Tropical Depression Four (TD4).
TD4 had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph, and is moving toward the west-northwest near 17 mph. It is expected to continue moving toward the west-northwest with an increase in forward speed is expected over the next couple of days. When the TRMM satellite flew overhead on August 2 at 0205 UTC (August 1 at 10:05 p.m. EDT) it captured the rainfall rates within the storm. The NHC says that TD4 will likely strengthen into a tropical storm within 24 hours. If TD4 does strengthen it would become the third named storm of the Atlantic Ocean 2010 hurricane season and would be called Colin. |
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