It looks like the Gulf Of Mexico felt like it just had to keep up with its larger neighbor and whipped up its own tropical depression. This makes the fourth tropical depression of the 2009 Altantic Hurricane Season.

The National Hurricane Center predicts this one will likely get upgraded to a named tropical storm and make landfall sometime this evening between Mobile AL and Tallahasse FL. Good thing for gulf coast citizens that this system won't have enough time over open warm water to build up strength.

The Atlantic Ocean is an over achiever. It has churned out the second named tropical storm of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season. This will make the second tropical depression that has elevated its sustained wind speeds high enough (40 MPH/35 KNOTS and above) to be upgraded by the National Hurricane Center to a tropical storm. Both active storms were upgraded within the last twenty-four hours!

Bill is this storm's name and it is trudging away westard across the Atlantic Ocean right behind Tropical Storm Ana.

It looks like next week and the week after might be some rocking times here in South Florida.

Be safe and stay informed people.

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Early this morning the National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Depression 2 to Tropical Storm Ana. Officially, it's the first named tropical storm of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

Even though the initial 5 day projected storm track does not look good for those of us who live in The Florida Keys, Miami-Dade and Broward counties, I am not going to start top of up the generator gas tank until I see the storms disposition when it is two days from landfall. I have my hurricane supplies and plans in place to insure the well being of my family and I can work from anywhere I can get an internet connection - so I'm good to go.

Until now we have had pretty quite waters in the Atlantic ocean for the 2009 Hurricane Season. The National Hurricane Center has reminded us this week just how fickle the ocean can be with November still months away when it announced the second tropical depression of the season.

But this this depression is not alone out there. With it comes the chance of two more. A potential triple threat to the southeastern part of the United States.

If you are reading this and live close enough to the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico to be concerned, then you might want to default on the safe side and make sure your hurricane preparedness supplies and plans are good to go. You can also keep up with the latest updates by subscribing to the NHC RSS feeds.