Hurricane Larry, this year’s fifth in the Atlantic Basin, is moving across the Atlantic in a northwesterly direction and is expected to pass this Thursday near the Bermuda Islands, which are already under tropical storm watch.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center located Larry at 11 a.m. Miami (3 p.m. GMT) about 780 miles (1,255 kilometers) southeast of the Bermuda Islands.
This “great hurricane,” as the NHC calls it in its newsletter, has sustained maximum winds of 115 miles per hour (185 km / h), corresponding to category 3 (out of a total of 5), and moves at 9 miles per hour (15 km / h).
On Wednesday it will maintain its current course, but on Thursday, when it is expected to pass through eastern Bermuda, it will turn north-northwest or north and its speed of translation will accelerate.
The NHC predicted a gradual weakening of Larry’s winds, which currently extend up to 70 miles (110 km) from its center those with hurricane strength and up to 185 miles (295 km) from those with strong winds. of tropical storm.
From Wednesday afternoon Bermuda may be under tropical storm conditions, while the hurricane generated by the hurricane will continue to affect the Lesser Antilles, part of the Greater Antilles, Bahamas and Bermuda this week.
The strong swell will reach the east coast of the US and Canada as well.
The NHC also shows in its graphs today a weather disturbance located in the Gulf of Mexico, which will move this week to Florida and cross it on the way to the Atlantic Ocean, where some subsequent cyclonic development is not ruled out.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that the current cyclonic season in the Atlantic was above average.
So far this year, 5 hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin, Henri, Grace, Elsa, Ida and Larry.
Iada reached the intensity category 3 of the Saffir-Simpson scale, of a maximum of 5, and caused great damage to the Caribbean and the United States. In the US it is estimated that half a hundred people died as a result of Ida.