Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms

In the Atlantic Ocean:

The remnants of Gabrielle reorganized Tuesday morning and the National Hurricane Centre is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Gabrielle once gain. Gabrielle is headed on a path toward Bermuda Tuesday into Wednesday with rain and wind. Tropical storm warnings have been issued.

It is uncertain at this stage whether Humberto will become a hurricane by Wednesday morning (the 11th). Only a small difference (73 vs. 74 miles per hour of sustained wind, in practice 70 vs. 75) separates a tropical storm from a hurricane, and the details of intensity of a strengthening storm are notoriously difficult to forecast even within 36-48 hours. Currently in the atmosphere in the vicinity of Humberto there are factors both for and against enough intensification by then.

Regardless, Humberto is not expected to produce direct effects on land for the foreseeable future.

NewsBytes:

More than 5,000 families have been displaced in Jonglei state’s capital, Bor, by heavy floods caused by the rapid rise of the White Nile River in Sudan.

At least 10 districts in Assam, India were reeling under flood water with the Asia’s largest river island Majuli and the famed Kaziranga National Park being the worst affected. Rising water of the Brahmaputra has inundated vast tracts of land in Kaziranga’s Burapahar, Bagori and northern parts of Agratoli.