BRIDGETOWN,
Barbados, Tuesday, September 4, 2012 – The United States National Hurricane
Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Leslie and those in Bermuda are
being advised to monitor the progress of the storm over the next few days as it
gains intensity as it churns toward them.
The
tropical storm is passing north east of the Lesser Antilles but over the next
few days could bring life-threatening surf and rip currents to all northern
Caribbean islands including Bahamas, Bermuda, and the eastern seaboard of the
United States.
Tropical-storm-force
winds extending outward up to 178 nautical miles from the centre were clocked
over the weekend generating swells that affected Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands.
The
timing of Tropical Storm Leslie makes it the second earliest formation of a
12th named storm during the Atlantic hurricane season, one day behind Luis of
1995, which formed on August 31 that year.
An
average Atlantic hurricane season is expected to only produce 11 named storms,
so Leslie as the 12th named storm has marked the transition into an
above-average season
Experts
say the peak of hurricane season will occur in about a week. While predictions
had been for an abrupt shutdown to the season by early to mid October with the
advent of El Nino, given that El Nino has been very slow to develop, and may
never develop at all, the season could see two to four storms between October
and November. Should this extended activity occur, this hurricane seas could
experience as many as 20 storms, despite the relatively short duration of some
of the storms that have formed so far.
Already,
a small low pressure system has also developed northwest of the Cape Verde
Islands with a medium chance, about 30 percent, of becoming a tropical cyclone
during the next 48 hours.
SOURCE: http://www.caribbean360.com/index.php/news/barbados_news/612794.html#ixzz25YFLP1rZ
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