It's too early at this time to determine if there will be any impact to the U.S. These swells could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Swells are expected to reach Bermuda and the Bahamas in a day or two, and then spread to the United States East Coast by this weekend. Hurricane Sam: Swells generated by Sam will impact the Lesser Antilles during the next several days. Location: 535 miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands 3,837 miles east of West Palm Beach.Location: 405 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands 1,548 miles east of West Palm Beach.Formation chance through 5 days: low, 30 percent. Elsa was about 175 miles southeast of Montego Bay, Jamaica, packing sustained winds of 65 mph and moving quickly toward the west-northwest at 17 mph at 8 p.m.Formation chance through 48 hours: low, 30 percent.This system is expected to move northeast at about 10 mph into a region of very strong upper-level winds on Wednesday. Formation chance through 5 days: medium, 60 percent.ĭisturbance 3: The associated shower and thunderstorm activity remains limited, and the chances of this system becoming a short-lived tropical depression or storm appear to be decreasing.
Formation chance through 48 hours: medium, 60 percent.The broad low is expected to move slowly west-northwest to west over the central tropical Atlantic during the next few days. Steady strengthening is forecast, and the depression is expected to become a tropical storm tonight and a hurricane in a couple of days.ĭisturbance 2: Environmental conditions are conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could still form during the next couple of days if the disturbance does not get absorbed into the stronger low-pressure system located to its east. Tropical Depression 20: Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph, with higher gusts. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 40 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 125 miles. Some fluctuations in intensity are expected during the next couple of days, but Sam is forecast to remain a major hurricane through late this week.
Sam is a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Hurricane Sam: Maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph, with higher gusts.
Disturbance 2: Showers and thunderstorms remain disorganized in association with a a broad area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.ĭisturbance 3: A well-defined low-pressure area associated with the remnants of Peter is located several hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda.
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