Two new
tropical storms have formed in the Atlantic within hours of on another according to
news from the Houston Chronicle. Neither pose a threat to the United States but could disrupt travel in parts of the Caribbean.
Tropical Storm Nadine emerged early Saturday on the western
rim of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize and Tropical Storm Oscar
formed in the western Atlantic Ocean several hours later.
The National Hurricane Center’s tracking of Nadine’s progress
reported that as of 10 a.m. EST October 19, 2024, Nadine was packing maximum sustained winds
of 50 mph as it neared landfall about 25 miles southeast of Belize City,
heading west at 8 mph. The 14th storm of the 2024 Atlantic
hurricane season is expected to cross Belize and press into northern Guatemala
before weakening and dissipating by late Sunday over southern Mexico.
“Widespread 4- to 8-inch rainfall amounts are expected with
Nadine across northern Belize, northern Guatemala, and southern Mexican states
from Quintana Roo westward to Veracruz,” the hurricane center said Saturday.
“Isolated areas of amounts exceeding 12 inches are also possible through late
Tuesday.”
According to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center,
Tropical Storm Oscar is churning about 1,150 miles east of Nadine in the
western Atlantic Ocean. Just north of the island of Hispaniola southeast of the
Bahamas, Oscar became a tropical storm about nine hours after Nadine’s
formation. The storm appears to be heading for Cuba with maximum sustained
winds of 40 mph.
"Oscar is moving toward the west near 13 mph, and this
motion, with a gradual slowdown and turn to the west-southwest, is forecast
over the next couple of days,” a spokesperson from the hurricane center said on
Saturday morning.
As of 10 a.m. Saturday, the rotating center of the storm,
the 15th named in an especially active Atlantic hurricane season, was
about 495 miles east of Camaguey, Cuba. Oscar was projected to push westward
and possibly make a landfall on the northeastern coast of Cuba late Sunday or
early Monday before making a U-turn back out into the Atlantic Ocean.
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