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Tropical Storm Dean moving across Atlantic
(Bay News 9) -- Tropical Depression #4, which formed in the Atlantic Ocean Monday morning, was upgraded to Tropical Storm Dean late Tuesday morning.
It continues to move westward at 20 mph.
Dean has 40-mph winds and though it's currently about 1,400 miles east of the far eastern Caribbean, it could reach that area by this weekend, at which time it may have intensified into a hurricane by Friday, according to Bay News 9 meteorologists.
A storm with wind speeds of 39 mph and higher is classified as a tropical storm, and a storm with wind speeds of 74 mph and higher is classified as a hurricane.
Dean is too far away to accurately forecast possible effects on Florida. It is the fourth named storm of the season.
Meanwhile, the National Hurricane Center said a tropical storm watch has been issued for the Texas coast from Freeport southward as a tropical depression formed in the central Gulf of Mexico.
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