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New Tropical System In Atlantic Being Watched By Forecasters
Forecasters are monitoring a new system in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It's located a few hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands in West Africa. "This system is forecast to move generally westward to west-southwestward," according to the National Hurricane Center, "and environmental conditions could become more favorable for gradual development by the middle to latter part of this week. "A tropical depression could form as the system begins moving west-northwestward and approaches or moves near the Leeward Islands by the end of this …
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Hurricane Lee: NY National Guard Making Preparations As Storm Strengthens
State leaders are preparing for possible impacts from Hurricane Lee as the storm continues to strengthen on its trek northward. Related story - Hurricane Lee Track Shifts: Threat To Northeast Grows, Chance Of New England Landfall Increases On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that 50 soldiers from the New York National Guard have begun preparations on Long Island ahead of possible dangerous high surf, rip currents, coastal flooding, and beach erosion along parts of the East Coast later in the week. Dangerous surf and life-threatening rip currents will affect portions of …
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Hurricane Lee Restrengthens: New Models Predict Timing, Expected Site Of Landfall
Hurricane Lee has restrengthened as it is just days away from affecting a massive stretch of coastline along the East Coast. Click here for the latest update - Here Comes Hurricane Lee: Watches, Advisories Stretch From NY Through New England As of early Monday morning, Sept. 11, Lee is located 340 miles north of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean with 120 mile-per-hour winds. Now a Category 3 storm, it's moving northwest at 7 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said. It could briefly return to Category 4 status Tuesday morning, Sept. 12 before returning to Category 2 sta…
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Tropical Storm Forms In Atlantic: Here's Where It's Headed
The sixth named storm of the 2022 hurricane season has formed in the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Fiona is about 525 miles east of the Leeward Islands on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 15, the National Hurricane Center said. Fiona is moving toward the west, a motion expected to continue for the next several days. On the forecast track, the center of Fiona is forecast to move through the Leeward Islands late Friday, Sept. 16, and move near the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend, said the hurricane center. Maximum sustained winds are near 50 mph with higher gusts and tropical-storm-fo…
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Forecasters Decide Which Of Two Possible Paths Cat 4 Hurricane Sam Will Likely Take
When Hurricane Sam strengthened to major Category 4 status as it churned in the Atlantic basin last week, forecasters outlined two possible paths for the monster storm. They said that Sam would either veer on a west-northwest track, which would take it closer to the US coast, or continue to turn progressively to the north. Now, it looks very likely that Sam will follow the latter path. And make no mistake. That's a good thing. That's because it should stay well out to sea. Big waves along the Atlantic Coast should be the main impact from the storm. As of Wednesday morning, Sept. 29, the …
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Sam Expected To Reach Cat 4 Status With Two Possible Paths; Teresa Becomes 19th Named Storm
Hurricane Sam is expected to reach major Category 4 status as it churns in the Atlantic basin, where a new subtropical system, Teresa, has just become the 19th named storm of the 2021 hurricane season. On Saturday morning, Sept. 25, the center of now Category 2 Sam is about 1,100 miles east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands. It's moving west-northwest with maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour with higher gusts. A slower motion to the west-northwest is expected over the weekend, followed by a turn to the northwest on Monday, Sept. 27, the National Hurr…
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New Storm Could Reach Category 4 Hurricane Status; Here's Latest Projected Path
Click here for an updated story: Latest On Larry: Impacts From Hurricane Will Be 'Far Reaching' Even With Eye Off Coast Say goodbye to Henri and Ida. There's now a brand-new system, the sixth named storm of the 2021 hurricane season that's headed north. Hello, Larry. On Friday morning, Sept. 3, the center of the storm is located in the eastern Atlantic Ocean basin (west of the southernmost Cabo Verde Islands and east of the Leeward Islands) with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour and higher gusts. It should strengthen into a major hurricane by Friday afternoon, and ev…
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After Henri: Three Possible Tropical Systems Churning In Atlantic Basin
The National Hurricane Center says it's watching three areas of what it calls "disturbed weather" in the Atlantic Basin that could develop into tropical systems in the coming days. Any could become the next named tropical storm. The next name on the list, following the now-departed Henri, is Ida, followed by Julian and Kate. The first is a broad area of low pressure that's expected to form over the southwestern Caribbean Sea from a tropical wave currently located over the central Caribbean Sea. (See the image above.) "Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for development o…
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Epsilon Strengthens To Hurricane Status, Generating Large Waves That Will Affect East Coast
The latest hurricane in what has been one of the most active seasons in decades is now packing 110 mile-per-hour winds as it churns in the Atlantic Ocean. Epsilon is about 250 miles east-southeast of Bermuda early Thursday morning, Oct. 22. According to its newly projected track, Hurricane Epsilon is projected to remain over the open waters and will generate large waves that will affect Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, the Leeward Islands, the east coast of the United States, and coastal Canada the next few days. Epsilon will make a close approach to Bermuda Thursday n…
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There Are Two Tropical Storms In Atlantic: Here's Where Josephine, Newly Named Kyle Are Headed
There are now two tropical storms n the Atlantic Ocean, and they're heading in different directions. The National Hurricane Center announced on Thursday, Aug. 13 that it upgraded Tropical Depression Eleven to Tropical Storm Josephine. On Friday, Aug. 14, Kyle became the 11th named tropical system of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Unlike Josephine, it is well offshore and poses no threat to the East Coast. Josephine's center as of Saturday morning, Aug. 15, is located over the Atlantic Ocean about 310 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands, the area where t…
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New Tropical Storm In Atlantic: Latest Projected Five-Day Track Released For Josephine
A new projected track has been released for the tropical storm that just formed in the Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center announced on Thursday, Aug. 13 that it upgraded Tropical Depression Eleven to Tropical Storm Josephine. On Friday morning, Aug. 14, Josephine's center is located over the Atlantic Ocean about 680 miles (1090 km) east-southeast of the northern Leeward Islands, the area where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. It's moving toward the west-northwest at about 17 miles per hour with that general motion expected to continue fo…
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New Tropical Storm Forms In Atlantic: Here's Projected Five-Day Path
A new tropical storm has just formed in the open Atlantic. The National Hurricane Center announced at around midday on Thursday, Aug. 13 that it has upgraded Tropical Depression Eleven to Tropical Storm Josephine. Hurricane turned Tropical Storm Isaias (pronounced "ees-ah-EE-ahs") became the earliest storm to begin with an "I" on record. The previous record was set on Aug. 7, 2005. The first hurricane of the 2020 season, Hannah, became the earliest storm with an "H" name by nearly two weeks. Tropical Storm Josephine marks the earliest appearance of the "J' storm since the satellite e…
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