Hurricane Center watching low in Gulf

Posted Jun 23, 2009 by TBO.com

Updated Jun 23, 2009 at 01:23 PM

The National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on an area of low pressure in the far western Gulf of Mexico, but forecasters don’t see a huge chance of it developing.

It’s tucked fairly close to the east coast of Mexico and is expected to move to the northwest, which would put it over land fairly soon. The hurricane center says the rain and thunderstorms remain fairly disorganized. Plus, there’s a huge dome of high pressure over the central part of the United States that could hamper any development.

The hurricane center gives the low pressure area a less than 30 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm during the next two days, although it probably will pour heavy rain over parts of Mexico.

On the other side of Mexico, the first storm of the eastern Pacific season, Andres, is still forecast to become a hurricane, though briefly. The forecasters don’t expect it to hit land, but it could skirt close to the coast before heading west and out to sea.