Miami, United States
the tropical torment Mindy formed this Wednesday northeast of the Gulf of Mexico and is approaching the northwestern part of Florida known as the “Panhandle,” where it will arrive tonight, the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC).
In its 17.00 local time (21.00 GMT) bulletin, the Miami-based NHC reported that warnings have already been issued.and tropical storm for Florida Panhandle, from Mexico Beach to the river Steinhatchee. Mindy, the thirteenth storm of the current Atlantic cyclonic season, is located 90 miles (150 km) from Apalachicola, Florida, and has sustained maximum winds of 40 mph (65 km / h).
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It is moving rapidly northeast with a translation speed of 21 mph (33 km / h) and few changes in the intensity of its winds are expected. According to the forecast, the center of Mindy will cross the coastal strip of the Panhandle tonight and will move through the southeastern United States until tomorrow out into Atlantic waters.
The Mindy center is expected to “touch down tonight” on the Florida Panhandle strip of land, the NHC warned. As it passes, the weather phenomenon will produce a cumulative total rainfall of 2 to 4 inches with maximum amounts of 6 inches along Florida Panhandle and parts of South Georgia and the South Carolina until Thursday morning.
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These rains can cause isolated and scattered flooding in urban areas, experts have noted. So far this year, 5 hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin, Elsa, Grace, Henri, Ida and Larry, of which Grace, Ida and Larry achieved the highest category, 3 or more.
Iada reached the Saffir-Simpson scale intensity category 4, out of a maximum of 5, and caused extensive damage in the Caribbean and the United States, where it is estimated that half a hundred people died as a result of this cyclone. EFE