Saturday, 7 September 2019

Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms - Roundup of Tropical Storms:

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In the Atlantic Ocean: Hurricane Dorian is located about 145 mi...230 km se of Nantucket Massachusetts and about 410 mi...660 km sw of Halifax Nova Scotia with maximum sustained winds...85 mph...140 km/h. Present movement...ne or 50 degrees at 25 mph...41 km/h.

Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble. The storm made landfall at Cape Hatteras at about 9 a.m. (1300 GMT) with maximum sustained winds of 90 miles per hour (150 km per hour), according to the National Hurricane Center. That was far weaker than its slow, deadly tour through the Bahamas earlier in the week that caused at least 43 deaths, according to news media accounts late Friday, and likely many more. By late afternoon, Dorian was moving away from the mid-Atlantic states and headed towards Canada where it was expected to bring hurricane-force winds to parts of Nova Scotia by Saturday evening, the National Hurricane Center said.

Post Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle is located about 990 mi...1590 km wsw of the Azores with maximum sustained winds...50 mph...85 km/h. Present movement...nw or 310 degrees at 17 mph...28 km/h.

In the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Tropical Storm Juliette is located about 1090 mi...1755 km w of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds...45 mph...75 km/h. Present movement...w or 280 degrees at 12 mph...19 km/h.

In the Western Pacific Ocean: Typhoon 15w (Lingling), located approximately 84 nm west-northwest of Yongsan Ain, South Korea is tracking northward at 19 knots.

Tropical Storm Faxai, located approximately 479 nm south-southeast of Yokosuka, Japan, is tracking northwestward at 19 knots.

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