ALEX COULD BE A HURRICANE LATER TODAY

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Written by: Brian Neudorff

Overnight and during the morning Alex has remained a tropical storm but it continues to strengthen, get better organize and approach hurricane strength. As of 8am EDT, Alex had a maximum sustain wind of 70 mpg (4 shy of being classified as a category 1 hurricane) and was moving northwest at 12 miles an hour.

Some of the models since last night have been wanting to take Alex more west but it has yet to make the turn more to the west-northwest. As it stands now the 3-day cone of uncertainty in the National Hurricane Forecast takes Alex as a category 2 hurricane just south of Texas into Mexico but if Alex continues on a northwest trajectory it could make landfall in Texas.


As far as Alex's impact on the Gulf Oil spill, will be more from high surf being churned up by Alex in the southwestern quadrant of the Gulf. Winds will also increase but not to a worst case scenario. There is a lot of weather in the form rain and storms that are hurting efforts along the Gulf Coast where workers and volunteers try to clean up the mess. Alex will have an impact but thankfully this storm is not headed to the shores of Louisiana or Mississippi or Alabama.