How Many More Times Cane We Dodge the Bullet
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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Aug 18 2017 8:12 AM
NHC is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Harvey, located about 55 miles (90 km) west of Barbados at 8 a.m. AST (EDT). Maximum sustained winds remain near 40 mph (65 km/h) with higher gusts. Some slight strengthening is possible during the next 48 hours. The latest NHC advisory is linked at www.nhc.noaa.gov/#Harvey
Elsewhere, we continue to closely watch an area of low pressure located about 750 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands. The shower and thunderstorm activity associated with it continues to show signs of organization. While it would take only a slight increase in organization for a tropical depression to form later today or tonight, upper-level winds are becoming less favorable for development. The low is expected to move west-northwestward at about 20 mph during the next few days, and interests in the northern Leeward Islands should monitor the progress of this disturbance. It has a high chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next five days.
Also, shower activity has increased during the last 24 hours in association with a tropical wave located over the far eastern Atlantic Ocean, several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Environmental conditions are forecast to become more favorable for some development early next week while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward at about 20 mph. It has a medium chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next five days.
Get the latest on tropics by going directly to the NHC website at www.hurricanes.gov
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