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A broad area of low pressure in the western Caribbean Sea is becoming better organized and the National Hurricane Center is initiating advisories on the system as of 4 p.m. Sunday.
The system has maximum sustained winds near 45 mph with higher gusts, and "steady strengthening is forecast," according to the center. The storm is likely to become a hurricane by Tuesday night or ...
Hurricane Beryl is barreling towards Jamaica as a Category 5 storm after making landfall in the Windward Islands, bringing devastating winds and storm surges that have destroyed homes, wiped out ...
Atlantic hurricane tracking chart. A tropical cyclone tracking chart is used by those within hurricane-threatened areas to track tropical cyclones worldwide. In the north Atlantic basin, they are known as hurricane tracking charts. New tropical cyclone information is available at least every six hours in the Northern Hemisphere and at least ...
The National Hurricane Center is tracking Tropical Storm Joyce and Hurricane Isaac in the Atlantic and a system in the Caribbean, which could develop into a tropical storm.
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Hurricane Gilbert was the strongest landfalling storm in Jamaican history. The island nation of Jamaica lies in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola.It frequently experiences the effects of Atlantic tropical cyclones that track across the Caribbean, with impacting storms often originating east of the Windward Islands or in the southern Caribbean between Nicaragua and Colombia.
Beryl was about 100 miles west of Kingston, Jamaica and headed west-northwest at 20 mph. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 45 miles from the storm’s eye, putting Kingston within reach of the ...