GREAT BAY (DCOMM):--- The Department of Disaster Management (ODM) on Thursday said the formation of Tropical Depression (TD#6) #6 in the far central Atlantic Ocean does not pose a threat to the country. The system will pass several hundred miles away from the country.
At 5:00pm on Thursday afternoon September 11, the National Hurricane Center upgraded a Low Pressure system to TD#6 which was located 940 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands.
Maximum sustained winds are 35 miles per hour with higher gusts. Strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours and the depression could become a tropical storm.
TD#6 is moving northwest at 15 miles per hour. There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect as the system is in the open Atlantic Ocean.
