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New Tropical System Could Be Threat To East Coast New Tropical System Could Be Threat To East Coast
New Tropical System Could Be Threat To East Coast Forecasters are closely monitoring an area in the Atlantic basin just off the southeastern coast of the United States for the possibility of tropical development with the potential to bring heavy rain to parts of the East Coast late this week. It's expected "to form during the next day or two a couple of hundred miles north of the southeastern or central Bahamas, as a tropical wave interacts with an upper-level trough," the National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday, Sept. 14. A tropical depression could form later this week while the system moves north-northwestward or northward a…
Isaias Becomes Hurricane: Here's Latest Projected Path Isaias Becomes Hurricane: Here's Latest Projected Path
Isaias Becomes Hurricane: Here's Latest Projected Path Isaias has become a hurricane ahead of schedule with a new projected path that takes the Category 1 storm up the East Coast. The second named hurricane of the season, the storm is expected to move through the Bahamas on Friday, July 31 before moving close to Florida's east coast then heading up the Northeast. At 5 a.m. Friday, the center of now Hurricane Isaias (pronounced "ees-ah-EE-ahs") was located about 15 miles south-southwest of Great Inagua Island, the National Hurricane Center said. It's packing maximum sustained near 80 miles per hour. Earlier report: Newly Released Forecas…