First storm of hurricane season now has a 90 percent chance of formation
Tropical Storm Ana could be officially named as early as Friday if it reaches sustained winds of at least 39 mph.
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A system in the northern Atlantic is expected to become Tropical Storm Ana by as early as Friday. [ National Hurricane Center ]
Updated 2 hours ago
The formation of Tropical Storm Ana and the start of the 2021 hurricane season are now imminent.
The National Hurricane Center says a system in the Atlantic, northeast of Bermuda, has a 90 percent chance of becoming the first named storm of the season within the next five days. It was given just a 40 percent chance Wednesday afternoon.
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Those hurricane-season bulletins will start early this year
The National Hurricane Center will issue tropical weather updates beginning May 15, about two weeks before the hurricane season starts.
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A Nov. 2 image from the GOES-East satellite shows Tropical Storm Eta strengthening into a hurricane over the Caribbean Sea while taking aim at Central America. It would hit Florida 10 days later. [ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ]
Updated Mar. 2
The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday that it will issue tropical weather bulletins earlier this year, beginning May 15.
That is 17 days before the official June 1 start of the 2021 hurricane season. Itâs the same date that government scientists are considering as the new start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Hurricane Iota bashes Nicaragua, Honduras after Eta floods
Category 4 Iota hampered communications in Nicaragua and Honduras, cutting off contact with regions already devastated by Hurricane Eta.
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People watch the rising waters of the Rio Bermejo in the wake of Hurricane Iota in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Tuesday. Hurricane Iota tore across Nicaragua on Tuesday, hours after roaring ashore as a Category 4 storm along almost exactly the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was recently devastated by an equally powerful hurricane. [ DELMER MARTINEZ | AP ]
Published Nov. 18, 2020
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) â Hurricane Iota battered Nicaraguaâs Caribbean coast and flooded some stretches of neighboring Honduras that were still under water from Hurricane Eta two weeks earlier, leaving authorities struggling to assess damage after communications were knocked out in some areas.