NHC sees no tropical cyclones in Gulf of Mexico

October 8, 2007 - 0:0

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Friday it did not expect any tropical cyclones to form over the next day or so from the many low-pressure systems in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Mexico it was watching.

In the Gulf, the NHC said the development if any of a non-tropical low in the northwestern Gulf would be slow to occur as the system moves at about 10 miles per hour west-northwest toward the oil-rich coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
All of the weather models show the Gulf system will cross the central coast of Texas southwest of Houston over the next day or so.
Meteorologists at AccuWeather forecast the Gulf system would reach the Texas coast south of Galveston but north of Corpus Christi sometime Friday.
Near the Bahamas, the NHC said another low-pressure system remained disorganized and the winds were not favorable for development.
Any development of the Bahamas system would be slow to occur as the system moved slowly west-southwest toward the Gulf of Mexico, it added.
The weather models show the system crossing the Bahamas over the next day or so and entering the Gulf of Mexico over the Straits of Florida or Cuba before reaching the central or western Gulf over the next five days.
AccuWeather did not expect any development of the Bahamas system over the next 24 to 48 hours. AccuWeather expects the system to move westward through the southern Bahamas Friday then over Cuba or through the Straits of Florida during the weekend before moving into the southeast Gulf of Mexico by early next week.