Tropical depression No. 17 forms

Mary Meaux
The Port Arthur News

November 05, 2008 05:27 pm

— An area of disturbed weather in the southwestern Caribbean Sea has developed into Tropical Disturbance No. 17 but isn’t expected to be a threat to Southeast Texas.
The area is located about 150 miles southeast of Cabo Gracias A Dios on the border of Nicaragua and Honduras.
Montra Lockwood, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, Lake Charles, said the area of disturbed weather is about 1,300 miles from southeast Texas.
“The upper pattern troughs are blocking it from entering the Gulf,” she said. “It will likely drift northward then eastward toward Cuba.”
Should the disturbed weather become a tropical storm it would take the name Paloma.
Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.