Watch the Weather Before You Travel
Before planning a trip, you should check out what is happening with the weather.
There are several websites you can utilize to stay safe. One is the [tag]National Hurricane Center[/tag].
I just saw this article on their website and thought, “Oh my goodness. I would want to know this if I was preparing to travel in that area.”
The National Hurricane Center says a tropical depression has strengthened into [tag]Tropical Storm Chanta[/tag]l in the open [tag]Atlantic[/tag].
The storm is moving northeast at about 23 mph.
The threshold for a tropical storm is sustained winds of 39 mph. When those winds reach 74 mph, it becomes a hurricane.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was centered about 330 miles south of [tag]Halifax, Nova Scotia[/tag], according to the National Hurricane Center.
The storm was expected to grow stronger but “as a tropical system it has a very short life ahead of it,” said James Franklin, a senior hurricane specialist with the Hurricane Center.
There were two previous named storms in 2007: Subtropical Storm Andrea, which formed in May, and Tropical Storm Barry, which formed June 1, the first day of hurricane season.
