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Tropical Storm Gaston,Major Hurricane Earl

Tropical Storm Gaston,Major Hurricane Earl:Shipping forecast promises a busy hurricane season, National Hurricane Center monitors the three storms in the Atlantic. Major Hurricane Earl, after a brief decrease in category 3 status has been upgraded to 4 pm Wednesday, hurricane and tropical storm watches to warnings went in the Mid-Atlantic with Hurricane clock lifted north across New England.

Graf will likely bring the threat of a hurricane in the eastern part of North Carolina on Thursday night and parts of New England on Friday.

Meanwhile, tropical storm “Fiona on the heels of the graph is pretty disorganized, but still respectable exhibition tropical storm almost hurricane force winds over the last hurricane hunter data. Fiona, is likely to begin to weaken considerably, and the remnants of his head toward Bermuda on Friday.

Further east violations in the eastern tropical Atlantic has been updated to a tropical depression status this morning, Tropical Storm Gaston at the end of the day. Gaston is expected to become a hurricane and will be located in the vicinity of the northeastern Caribbean in 5 days. It is still too early to say, Gaston will remain the Atlantic system.

Tropical promise to remain very busy one more reliable wave at the exit from the African coast.

Ocracoke Island

Ocracoke Island:As Hurricane Earl continues brewing in the western Atlantic, the authorities Outer Banks of North Carolina began to evacuate Ocracoke Island via ferry. Ocracoke Island, which is filled with almost 5000 people on holiday can be reached only by ferry, making it extremely dangerous storm should move closer, because after some point it’s impossible to leave.

Hurricane Earl remains a major hurricane this morning as it moves northwest at about 16 miles per hour. National Hurricane Center has revised their projected path just to the west since yesterday, indicating the outer banks of NC may have strong winds of a hurricane. The road leads only from the coast Outer Banks in the early morning of Friday, as the still powerful hurricane. This is the forward speed should pick up the post, placing the graph is to the east of Cape Cod early Saturday morning. Please refer to the 8 am NHC projected path box above. All interests in the East Coast of the United States should pay close attention to any changes made to the projected path over the next 24-48 hours.

Hurricane Earl Projected Path

Hurricane Earl Projected Path:Hurricane Earl was followed by the path the U.S. east coast on Tuesday as the powerful storm moved away from the north-eastern Caribbean islands, he knocked the wind and rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Forecasters said it remains unclear how much of the eastern coast of the United States that count, the second major hurricane of 2010 Atlantic season, can be reflected at the end of the week.

Interests from the Carolinas north to New England should monitor the progress of the count, “the Miami-based hurricane center said at 5 am (0900 GMT) advisory nature.

Earl was a strong Category 4 storm with top sustained winds 135 miles per hour (215 km / h) and 290 miles (470 km) east-southeast of Grand Turk. It was moving west-northwest on a track bend hurricane center said it would take off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on Thursday and Friday.

Center of the cyclone is moving away from U.S. territory, the island of Puerto Rico and is projected through the open Atlantic east of the Turks and Caicos Islands later on Tuesday.

On its current path, the graph is not a threat to the Gulf of Mexico, where major U.S. oil and gas installations are located.

A direct hit on the East Coast of the USA can not be excluded, and the count is expected to bring heavy rain, dangerous sea and surf and gusty winds to the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to New England and Canada, said Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist for private forecaster AccuWeather.

If the count swings farther west than expected, heavy rain can sweep the Interstate 95 corridor from North Carolina to Washington, Philadelphia and New York, he said.

Hovensa LLC said operations were normal at 500,000 barrels per day plant on St. Croix, but also harbor plant and all other ports in the U.S. Virgin Islands was closed because of the count.

POWER OUT, trees,

Earlier, the hurricane suffered the northern Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, with fierce winds, torrential rain and pounding waves as it passed.

3 world’s largest cruise lines – Carnival Corp, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line – have changed their routes and the Caribbean are forwarded at least seven ships to avoid the storm.

Residents on the island of St. Maarten / St. Maarten, its two halves, respectively, administered by France and the Netherlands, said the passage of the graph has caused power outages and toppled trees.

“Currently, the wind was blowing really, incredibly strong … I saw a lot of damage to the trees … I would certainly suggest to the roof, I watch my very cautiously,” Steve Wright, general manager of Grand Case Beach Club in Grand Case, Saint-Martin, told Reuters.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

In Antigua, some flooding in low-lying areas have been reported. After the storm passed, Antigua and Barbuda declared a national holiday to residents of the state of the two islands to clean.

Ports of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Ports of Vieques, Culebra, Fajardo and San Juan have been closed, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Government offices and schools in the eastern part of Puerto Rico have been closed.

Hurricane Center said tropical storm about 590 miles Fiona (950 km) east of the Leeward Islands. It had top winds of 40 miles per hour (65 kph) and was moving west-northwest at 23 miles per hour (37 kph) on a path that was to take the north-east of the Leeward Islands on Wednesday . None of the prediction models took Fiona to the Gulf of Mexico.

Tropical Storm Fiona Forms,Hurricane Fiona

Tropical Storm Fiona  Forms,Hurricane Fiona:National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Fiona formed in the Atlantic Ocean, the hurricane count, which beats the north Caribbean.

Fiona is formed to the east of the Leeward Islands, on Monday afternoon, and forecasters said the tropical storm watch may be required later in the day.

The storm winds of 65 km / h and 1435 km east of the Leeward Islands.

Graf, meanwhile, quickly stepped in major Category 3 storm on the way predicted, the threat of the United States.

Hurricane Earl Path Updates

Hurricane Earl Path Updates:Projected path of Hurricane Earl is a serious problem, as the accounting major Category 3 storm lashes out in the northeastern Caribbean, causing this major event weather in Google trends on the second day. National Hurricane Center suggests that the graph could be Category 4 hurricane over the weekend. Category 4 storms usually have steady winds 131 miles / h.

Strong rain and winds of 120 miles per hour and make a graph of the second major hurricane of 2010 and it is possible that this could jeopardize the eastern United States this weekend.

The latest report of MSNBC shows that the hurricane count, will likely continue to grow as it approaches the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Forecast storm track will serve as the center to the north of the Caribbean Sea. Forecasters predict that the hurricane will bend to the north, moving almost parallel to the east coast of the United States.

CNN reports: Hurricane warnings were in effect for Anguilla, St. Martin / St. Maarten, St. Barthelemy, Saba, St. Eustatius, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico’s Vieques and Culebra.Hurricane conditions, including winds of at least 74 miles per hour, possibly watch area within 12 to 24 hours, forecasters said.

Associated Press reports: The National Hurricane Center specialist Michael Brennan tells the AP, “The guys from the Carolinas northward through the Mid-Atlantic and New England need to look at the graph and projections as they are updated through the week,” Brennan said.

Hurricane Earl Projected Path

Hurricane Earl Projected Path:reach a “major” category three level by the end of the day. The storm will pass over and affect the islands of Antigua and Barbuda on Sunday, and conditions are predicted to worsen. The storm reached a category 1 classification on Sunday while Earl was 150 miles east of the islands. Currently, the highest sustained winds are sitting at around 85 miles per hour with some higher gusts. It will be heading west-northwest at 14 MPH. Warnings are in effect for several different island chains in the Atlantic Ocean, including the British Virgin Islands. A hurricane watch and tropical storm warning have been issued in Puerto Rico as well.
The storm is expected to strengthen over the course of the next two days, and will become a potentially dangerous hurricane.

Earl will bring between three and five inches of rain to the Leeward Islands, with as much as 8 inches possible in some areas. Puerto Rico could receive anywhere between four and six inches of rain, with as much as 12 inches being possible.

Hurricane Danielle has avoided land, and continues to weaken as it moves farther out into the ocean. At one point, Danielle was categorized as a Category 4 hurricane, but it has weakened to a Category one since that time. The storm is moving north-northeast at nearly 30 MPH. Luckily, the storm did not threaten any land and has remained in the ocean.