Alberto, Year’s First Named Storm, Takes Aim At Alabama

By Brian K. SullivanBloomberg

Meet Alberto, the Atlantic’s first named storm of 2018.

Currently about 55 miles south of Cozumel, Mexico, it’s forecast to pass between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba on Friday before making landfall early Monday near Mobile Bay in Alabama, according to the latest advisory from the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Alberto is likely to drench the U.S. South and, along the way, bring heavy rains that could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides in Cuba and Mexico.

Alberto – which was christened a week before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season – probably won’t have a “major impact” on Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas production as it tracks east of most platforms, said Steve Silver, a meteorologist with Radiant Solutions in Gaithersburg, Maryland. But it may bring needed rain to Mississippi River Valley crops, other forecasters say.Era Group Inc., a Houston-based helicopter operator, began flights to evacuate workers from offshore oil facilities for a “couple” of oil and natural gas customers, the company said in a statement. Some companies are simply monitoring Alberto’s progress. There are no interruptions at the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, according to a company statement.

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