The primary impacts from Tammy – including its heaviest rains and strongest winds – should stay east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Credit: Tomer Burg/University of Oklahoma.Īlthough Tammy may briefly strengthen as it accelerates northeastward ahead of an approaching mid-Atlantic cold front early next week, it will pass well east of Bermuda and remain over the open Atlantic. Both the European and American models (red and green lines in the graphic) are in good agreement with Tammy passing near or over the northeastern islands of the Caribbean on Friday into Saturday. Global model forecasts for Tammy, with shaded colors indicating the odds of Tammy’s center passing within 100 miles of a given location. Models have slowed some with Tammy’s forward speed since yesterday, but the system should be accelerating northward and away from the northern Leeward Islands by late Saturday. The updated forecast calls for Tammy to become a hurricane as it begins to pull away from the islands on Saturday.įorecast models continue to come into better agreement with Tammy brushing the northeastern islands of the Caribbean as a strong tropical storm or hurricane starting on Friday and continuing through Saturday. Hurricane hunters investigating Tammy early Thursday found the storm stronger than initially thought, prompting the National Hurricane Center to issue a special mid-morning advisory. The watches will likely be upgraded to warnings later today and hurricane watches could be required for some of the islands in Tammy’s path. Tropical Storm Watches are currently in place for parts of the Lesser Antilles – from Barbados and Martinique in the south to Antigua and Barbuda in the north – for the possibility of tropical storm conditions by as early as tomorrow.
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