TravelTalkOnline Forums Travel and Vacation Forums British Virgin Islands Alex-First tropical storm for 2016 is on the move

So we have tropical storm Alex near the Azores. This is the first tropical storm of 2016. Probably will not get near Caribbean. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Clapping.gif" alt="" />

Now downgraded to a snow storm.

Not where it is located.

WHAT? A Tropical snow storm? Do I need to take a blanky for next weeks charter?

Poor attempt at humor??

Nope, Alex is really the first named storm of 2016

That should have an impact on the swell forecast.

look out Iceland and/or Greenland!

Why is this even on a BVI thread???

It will most likely impact the swell.

It already has impacted the swell..surf's up!

This weekend would not be a good time to sail across the Atlantic. Those three systems are and will create real waves. Some will end up in the BVI after a long ocean crossing. Some are already there. Others will tear themselves apart crashing into waves from the competing storms. Some of this will make swell a challenge to forecast and lead to changing swell conditions for a week to ten days. I am not an ocean passage forecaster. But, the storms to the North will change the BVI condition well outside of the "normal" range. I will let someone else make the claim they can predict the actual weather the next 7 days. Each skipper should be aware of where his boat is and how his boat is protected.

Alex is now a hurricane. Very unusual!

Extremely weird!

There goes the theory that it takes warm water to maintain a Hurricane.