We all know that the hurricane season starts in June, and after Hurricane Richard last year we're all on high alert.
But in April? Really?
That's what we said after the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued a special Tropical Weather Outlook this afternoon.
The Center says a low pressure area 460 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico has a 20% chance of forming into a tropical cyclone.
That is a very low chance, but it bears watching. The low pressure system has developed shower and thunderstorm activity near its center and satellite data and ship reports indicate gale-force winds north of the center.
Slow development of the system is possible during the next few days as it moves west northwest at about 10 mph.
Going that way, it poses no threat to Belize, and may pose no threat to any land mass at all, but, as an outlier, it bears watching and could be an ominous precursor of what forecasters say will be an active hurricane season.
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