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Tropical depression forms in Atlantic Ocean; System in Gulf also bears watching

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A tropical depression formed Tuesday afternoon in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said. It’s one of…
A tropical depression formed Tuesday afternoon in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean, forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said. It’s one of two systems that forecasters were watching, with the other one still developing in the Gulf of Mexico.
As of 5 p.m. ET, the Atlantic system, dubbed Tropical Depression Seven, had winds of 35 mph and was located 1420 miles east of the Windward Islands. It moving to the west-northwest at 8 mph, the hurricane center said.
If its wind speed reaches 39 mph, it would become Tropical Storm Gonzalo, the seventh named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.

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