Tropical storm Alex could hit the Gulf of Mexico by Sunday!

According to recent forecasts, the first tropical depression of this season formed in the Atlantic could hit the Gulf of Mexico by Sunday. The tropical depression formed on Friday in the Caribbean but forecasters don’t anticipate this weather system will become an intense hurricane.

Usually, the hurricane season starts in August, moves in the Atlantic Ocean and sometimes it spins into tropical storms. The tropical waves come off Africa in April or May but usually don’t develop into tropical storms and hurricanes until August. The African waves are broad areas of low pressure associated with thunderstorms.

The storms that formed out of deep tropical waves come down from westerlies. Although the tropical depression is heading for the Yucatan Peninsula and most probably will hit the Gulf of Mexico by Sunday, the storm won’t develop into a strong hurricane and might just be a tropical storm but if it will survive the Yucatan intact, it could develop into a huge storm, although there are no actual data that can sustain this will happen. Of course this is not good news for people who are trying to save the animals affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP might have to halt the oil containment for 2 weeks!

The Federal Officials told on Friday that the oil containment operations will be halt until the tropical storm alarm is over. And this might take up to 2 weeks. The Coast Guard, the company which is helping BP cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon spill is getting ready for contingency plans which could suspend the cleaning operations and delay the relief-well drilling until it will be safe again for deepwater drilling procedures.

According to federal estimations, more than 35 million gallons could gush out during the storm period.