We have a tropical depression on the first day of the 2023 hurricane season.
Tropical Depression 2 formed south of the Florida panhandle from an area of low pressure that the National Hurricane Center had been watching the last few days.
It could become Tropical Storm Arlene, briefly, as the storm moves south.
Tropical Depression Two formed in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon. It is forecast to become a brief tropical storm before weakening this weekend as it drifts south. No big impacts are expected for Louisiana. @WWLTV pic.twitter.com/lpUB2lTjrQ
— Alexandra Cranford WWL-TV (@alexandracranfo) June 1, 2023
The National Hurricane Center does not expect this system to get any stronger, and the forecast predicts that the same steering winds that are pushing the storm away from our coast to shear it into a remnant low in about two-and-a-half days.
