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and where it's headed: Tammy's center is just east of Guadeloupe as it approaches the northwest. Tammy has actually enhanced modestly considering that Friday night.
The storm strengthened into a typhoon on Friday morning in the tropical Atlantic. This is an unusual place for a cyclone to form this late in the year, according to Dr. Phil Klotzbach, a tropical researcher at Colorado State University.
By early in the week ahead, Tammy should turn northward, then northeastward out to sea and not be an issue for the continental United States.
The path northward far from the Caribbean has actually become less certain. Tammy was initially expected to be captured by a cold front by the middle of the upcoming week, however computer system guidance is now suggesting that the storm might drift around between Puerto Rico and Bermuda for a long time.
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Typhoon warnings have now been issued for a number of islands in the northeast Caribbean. That indicates cyclone conditions are expected in some of these areas. You can see the current warnings and watches in the map listed below.
Heavy rainfall, strong winds and high surf from Tammy must spread out across the eastern Caribbean islands through Saturday. Those effects will last through a minimum of early Sunday in some areas.
Rain overalls could be 4 to 8 inches (in your area as much as 12 inches) in the Leeward Islands. The northern Windward Islands may see 2 to 4 inches of rain (in your area up to 6 inches). Parts of eastern Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands could see 1 to 2 inches of rainfall (in your area as much as 4 inches).
T he heavy rainfall might cause flooding and mudslides in some of these areas.
Norma, now a Classification 1 storm since 2 p.m. ET, is anticipated to move over or near parts of Mexico's Baja California Sur-- consisting of Cabo San Lucas-- late Saturday afternoon or early evening, the National Cyclone Center stated.
Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters observed Norma's center located offshore just west of Cabo San Lucas on Saturday afternoon, and hurricane and conditions were taking place over some locations of of southern Baja California Sur, according to the cyclone center.
Norma is anticipated to be somewhat weaker by the time it strikes land, but it still will be a typhoon that could bring lethal conditions to a tourist-friendly region that's home to a couple of hundred thousand people, the cyclone center said.
In the Atlantic Ocean, on the other hand, Hurricane Tammy-- a Category 1 storm since Saturday afternoon-- has actually set off typhoon warnings for parts of the Leeward Islands, a chain of a number of island countries and territories in between the Caribbean Sea and the open Atlantic. Tammy's winds picked up speed to 85 mph.
Neither storm is a threat to the United States.
In the Atlantic, Tammy kept optimal continual winds of 85 mph and was centered about 25 miles north-northeast of Guadeloupe, the National Cyclone Center stated at 2 p.m. ET.
The Classification 1 typhoon was located about 50 miles southeast of Antigua by Saturday afternoon, the typhoon center stated.
Tammy is expected to move near or over portions of the Leeward Islands-- including Guadeloupe and Antigua and Barbuda-- through Saturday night, and after that move north of the northern Leeward Islands on Sunday.
Hurricane-force winds extended outside approximately 25 miles from the storm's center and tropical storm-force winds extended external approximately 125 miles.
Hurricanes in this part of the Atlantic are unusual for late October. Tammy is just the 3rd cyclone to form this far southeast in the Atlantic considering that 1900, according to cyclone professional Michael Lowry.
It's likewise the latest-forming cyclone in this part of the Atlantic considering that 1966, according to Phil Klotzbach, a research study scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University.
Cyclone specialists formerly cautioned typhoons might form in unusual locations later on in the season this year because of the extremely warm Atlantic Ocean.
A storm rise of 1 to 3 feet is possible for parts of the Leeward Islands.
Heavy rainfall will be one of the storm's most serious hazards and might lead to flash flooding and mudslides. Rain totals for the Leeward Islands are anticipated to be 4 to 8 inches, however could reach a foot in places where the heaviest rain establishes. Rain needs to be lighter in Puerto Rico and the British and US Virgin Islands, where 1 to 2 inches of rain is most likely.
Conditions will start to improve from south to north throughout the island chain by late Sunday as the storm moves north out of the region.
With Tammy in the Atlantic, only 2 names are left-- Vince and Whitney-- on the basic Atlantic storm name list before the hurricane center turns to an alternate list of names.
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