The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is showing that another tropical depression has formed just south of the Gulf Of Mexico. While this one is not terribly organized, it still manages to dump some rain on western Cuba and the eastern shores of the Yucatan. Meteoroligists at the NHC are giving this system between a 30 to 50 percent chance of becoming a tropicle cyclone within the next forty-eight hours.

Once it moves into the southern Gulf Of Mexico, conditions may be more favorable for this system to become more organized.

If it does turn into a tropical storm or hurrican after entering the gulf, I hope all of you residents of the gulf coast have your hurricane preparedness supplies and plans ready.

UPDATE (2009-06-28): The NHC has announced that this system has lost some of its 'oomf', and now has less than a 30% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone within the next 48 hours.

UPDATE (2009-06-29): This system degraded to nothing last night.

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You just can't make this up.

Photo originally from WSVN - Channel 7.

Meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center are keeping an eye on an ominous brewing of clouds in the western edge of the Gulf Of Mexico - just north of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Those of you living near the coast in Mexico and South Texas can relax. The eggheads at the NHC are projecting less than a 30% chance of this cloud system developing any tropical cyclone activity within the next fourty-eight hours. For now, it looks like some Mexicans are going to get some nice showers in this summer heat.

As a precaution, those of you local to this system, keep your radios and televisions tuned to catch any alerts just in case this weather system gets any larger or more organized.

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