Tropical Storm Gordon Downgraded to Depression in Atlantic
Gordon, the season’s seventh named storm, may either dissipate or regain strength as it moves north.
- Tropical Storm Gordon has weakened to a depression and is currently swirling through open waters in the Atlantic.
- The storm is located approximately 1,020 miles east of the northeast Caribbean with top winds of 30 mph.
- The National Hurricane Center indicates that Gordon could either dissolve in the coming days or re-strengthen into a tropical storm.
- This storm is part of an above-average Atlantic hurricane season, predicted by NOAA due to record warm ocean temperatures.
- The season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, is expected to have 17 to 25 named storms, with four to seven becoming major hurricanes.