Storm Imelda will bring rain to the southeastern US as Hurricane Humberto subsides.
Miami (USA), Sep 29 (EFE) .
Tropical Storm Imelda is expected to bring rain to the southeastern United States, although it has not made landfall, while Hurricane Humberto is moving toward Bermuda after weakening to Category 4, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported Monday.
The U.S. agency indicated that “swells and high waves from both Humberto and Imelda are expected to produce dangerous marine conditions and
rip currents along the east coast of Florida and the coast of Georgia today.” At last report, Imelda was 425 kilometers (265 miles) east-southeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour (50 miles) and moving north at 15 kilometers per hour (9 miles).
Due to the cyclone’s passage, which could strengthen into a hurricane on Monday or Tuesday, the NHC forecasts up to 10 centimeters (four inches) of rain in northeastern Florida and the coasts of South and North Carolina, as well as between 10 and 20 centimeters (four to eight inches) in Cuba and the Bahamas. The “rainfall could result in isolated flash and urban flooding” in the United States, the agency warned.
The “rainfall could result in isolated flash and urban flooding” in the United States, the agency said.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto, whose strength has caused Imelda to shift west, is now moving as a Category 4 hurricane after having reached Category 5 over the weekend.
At last report, Humberto was 585 kilometers (365 miles) south-southwest of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 230 kilometers per hour (145 mph) and moving north at 22 kilometers per hour (14 mph).
For now, the hurricane is generating “hazardous marine conditions, including high waves and life-threatening rip currents,” in the northern Caribbean islands, the Bahamas, and Bermuda.
“Dangerous surf conditions are expected to begin affecting much of the East Coast of the United States today,” the NHC said.
So far, there have been nine cyclones in the Atlantic this year: Hurricanes Erin, Gabrielle, and Humberto, and storms Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Fernand, and Imelda, of which Chantal has been the only one to make landfall in the United States this year, causing two deaths in July in North Carolina.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted an “above-normal” hurricane season, estimating between thirteen and eighteen tropical storms, of which between five and nine could become hurricanes.
