Tropical Update – TD 9 Moves Inland And Weakens

An area of disturbed weather in the Bay of Campeche has moved on shore in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. This interaction with land has weakened the system significantly in the overnight hours. The latest reports from the National Hurricane Center now suggest that the system is no longer a tropical depression.

The forecast track for the system suggests that the terrain of the Yucatan may be what destroys the system. Many reliable tropical models do not forecast the system making it all the way across the land mass and into the warmer waters of the Western Caribbean Sea. Should the system make it to those waters it is possible for some regeneration.

The system is also being hampered by another area of showers and thunderstorms along the northern coast of the Yucatan. Forecasters do not give this area of thunderstorms and convection much of a chance of strengthening. However, the proximity of this other weather system to former Tropical Depression 9 could cause both systems to fall apart.