Alberto Downgraded To Tropical Depression
[Updated] Alberto has been downgraded from a Tropical Storm to a Depression, with the system starting to weaken late last night. The Bermuda Weather Service said that Alberto remains a “potential threat to Bermuda” in their 6am update today [May 22].
Alberto is approximately 544 nautical miles west of Bermuda, and its closest point of approach to Bermuda within 72 hrs is forecast to be 350 nautical miles to the north-west at 11am tomorrow [May 23].
The official start of the Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1, and Alberto is the first pre-season tropical storm in the Atlantic to be named since Tropical Storm Ana in April 2003.
This is the first year on record that a tropical storm has formed in both the Atlantic and Pacific before the official start of their respective seasons, as the Pacific also experienced a pre-season storm with Tropical Storm Aletta forming in the East Pacific a day before the season’s May 15 start date.
Update 12.39pm: Alberto has dissipated further to a post-tropical cyclone, and the Bermuda Weather Service said that it is no longer a threat.
