23/08/06 - Rains from tropical depression hit Cape Verde islands PDF Print E-mail
ImageThe outer bands of a tropical depression brought unusual rain squalls to the southern Cape Verde islands in the far eastern Atlantic early Tuesday, forecasters said. At 5 p.m. EDT, the depression that formed Monday was centered 210 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde and was moving toward the west-northwest near 18 mph. The government of Cape Verde, 350 miles off the African coast, discontinued a tropical storm warning as the system passed.

The storm had maximum sustained winds near 35 mph, 4 mph below the threshold for a tropical storm and well below hurricane strength of 74 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. But it was expected to become a tropical storm by Wednesday and would take the name Debby.

Forecasters said the system was expected to head northwest later in the day and long-range forecasts show it nearing Bermuda in about a week. But it was still too early to tell if it would hit land, senior hurricane specialist James Franklin said.
 
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