(PHOTOS Mark Wallheiser)
A tropical storm warning was issued for coastal communities of the Florida Panhandle and the northeastern Gulf of Mexico as Tropical Storm Claudette took aim on the area later today, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Claudette, with maximum sustained winds of about 50 miles per hour, was about 40 miles west-southwest of Apalachicola, Florida, and moving northwest at 14 mph as of 5 p.m., the center said in a statement. Rainfall of 3 to 6 inches is forecast for the Florida Panhandle, central and southern Alabama and the southwestern part of Georgia, with isolated areas getting as much as 10 inches, the center said.
Elsewhere, Tropical Storm Bill, which formed late yesterday, is moving west in the Atlantic, while Ana, the first named storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season, was downgraded to a tropical depression as of 5 p.m. New York time, the forecasters said. Bill may become a hurricane tonight or tomorrow. Looks like Bill will be generating a nice swell for surfers from Florida to Nova Scotia by next weekend!
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