The powerful Category 3 hurricane Larry maintains its strong winds of 205 kilometers per hour (125 miles) and threatens between this Sunday and next week with surf currents on the US and Canadian coasts and the West Indies archipelago. .
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Larry is this Sunday about 1,415 kilometers (880 miles) east of the northern Leeward Islands and about 2,070 kilometers (1,285 miles) south. east of Bermuda.
The NHC expects the waves generated by Larry to reach the Lesser Antilles today and spread to portions of the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and Bermuda on Monday and Tuesday.
Significant waves are likely to hit the east coast of the U.S. and Canada and cause dangerous surf currents in the middle of next week.
The system moves northwest at about 20 kilometers per hour (13 miles).
Few changes in strength are forecast over the next few days, although fluctuations in intensity will be possible.
Larry, a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale out of a total of 5, will remain with that force for the first part of the week, according to meteorologists.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 75 kilometers (45 miles) from the center and up to 280 kilometers (175 miles) with tropical storm force.
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, four hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin, Henri, Grace, Elsa and Ida, the latter reaching the intensity category 3 of the Saffir-Simpson scale, from a maximum of 5, and caused death and destruction in the Caribbean and the United States.