The National Hurricane Center in Miami informed the other day that there is a possibility that a tropical depression to transform into a tropical storm. Their predictions turned out to be true as tropical storm Omar has formed Tuesday early in the morning. The U.S. National Hurricane Center announced that Omar has formed in the Caribbean Sea and is currently moving northeast at approximately 2 mph.

The Hurricane center has also reported that the storm’s maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph and that there is a strong possibility they will strengthen.

The software meteorologist use today is quite advanced and it can do some pretty interesting things. By using computer models meteorologists can safely predict the trajectory of a storm and by doing so warning possible affected areas to take special precautions. Using this exact kind of technology on tropical storm Omar, meteorologists predicted that Omar will head northeast across the Caribbean and into the Atlantic. Omar’s center was about 355 miles southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fortunately, meteorologists think that there is little chance Omar might affect areas like the Gulf of Mexico and that the tropical storm will eventually dissolve into the Atlantic Ocean.

A storm hitting the Gulf of Mexico would pose a great problem as this area is rich in oil and natural gas and the economy could not take a blow like this. Hurricane season will be over on November 30th and until then the National Hurricane Center will carefully analyze any disturbance in the weather, as strong storms are likely to form in this time of the year.