For the 7th consecutive year, hurricane season starts early. Subtropical Storm Ana was called by the National Hurricane Center (NHC), early Saturday morning.
It has a nice spin to it on satellite imagery with a well defined center. Typically, subtropical systems have a cold core with most of their rain and wind away from the center. But Ana, may be slowly morphing into a tropical system as it is starting to get thunderstorms moving into that center spin. This may be short-lived however.
Where is it headed?
Ana is slowly moving west/southwest and is forecast to move even slower over the next 12-24 hours. Some of its gusty winds could reach Bermuda and thus they have issued a Tropical Storm Watch for that possibility.
In the long term, a front pushed along by the Jet Stream coming out of Canada, will push Ana away from Bermuda and into the cold waters of the Northern Atlantic. The cold waters there should prove fatal to the system. It will also run into shear, or strong upper level winds that will cut it down to size, and drier air starving it of much needed moisture. NHC does not take the forecast any further than Monday.
Hurricane starts on Tuesday, June 1st and runs thru the end of November.
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