Good Saturday. The tropics for the most part remain quiet this morning with one exception, more on that in a second. There is also some heavy surf of note in southern California not from a tropical system, but rather a large southern hemispheric storm system. Nearshore waves of 4-9 feet occurred on Friday along the beaches of southern California. This same type of scenario is expected today with a gradual decrease in the wave action as the day progresses. A heavy surf advisory continues for the beaches of southern California.
Meanwhile we got some action popping up, not in the eastern Pacific or in the Atlantic, but west of the Philippines. Tropical Depression 7W continues to slowly organize about 270 nautical miles west northwest of Manila in the Philippines. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph with higher gusts. While strengthening is indicated, this thing is expected to just move slowly and not bother any land areas in the short term.
Other than the depression west of the Philippines, it looks quiet in the tropical weather picture this weekend. In the eastern Pacific, just a few showers with embedded thunderstorms continue for parts of Central America. But nothing is expected to develop into a tropical system anytime soon. We already had Tropical Storm Agatha in the east Pacific late last month. The following are the remaining named storms for this season in the eastern Pacific. Note Agatha, which is in bold has already occurred. Blas is the next named storm on the list in the east Pac.
2004
Agatha
Blas
Celia
Darby
Estelle
Frank
Georgette
Howard
Isis
Javier
Kay
Lester
Madeline
Newton
Orlene
Paine
Roslyn
Seymour
Tina
Virgil
Winifred
Xavier
Yolanda
Zeke
Meanwhile the Atlantic cannot be any quieter this morning with a large subtropical high dominating the central Atlantic. Subsidence combined with strong winds aloft and you might as well forget tropical development anytime soon. The Caribbean is a nice place to be for those beautiful sunsets this time of year. The only system of note is an upper level disturbance just south of western Cuba. South of that, showers and storms have developed associated with a wave over the southwest Caribbean. But nothing is developing tropically speaking and the Gulf of Mexico is quiet this morning. The following below are all the names of the Atlantic tropical systems this season starting with Alex.
2004
Alex
Bonnie
Charley
Danielle
Earl
Frances
Gaston
Hermine
Ivan
Jeanne
Karl
Lisa
Matthew
Nicole
Otto
Paula
Richard
Shary
Tomas
Virginie
Walter
That's the latest at this time. More updates coming up soon.
Jim
Update on the entire tropics 6-5-04
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