EFE.- The Bermuda Islands are the first territory under surveillance by the hurricane “Sam”, which strengthened overnight and continues to advance northwest over the Atlantic, while thousands of miles away the storm tropical “Victor” it also grew in intensity.
As reported by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States, “Sam” this morning had maximum sustained winds of 230 km / h and was moving at 19 km / h, which means an increase in its strength and also of his speed.
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At 05:00 hours it was located about 555 km northeast of the leeward islands and about 1,325 km south-southeast of the Bermuda Islands, whose meteorological service has issued a surveillance of tropical storm.
This is the first alert for land since the seventh hurricane of 2020, which has category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (out of a maximum of 5) and has traveled over the Atlantic for days slowly and away from land.
A surveillance of storm tropical means that conditions are possible tropical storm within the surveillance area, generally within 48 hours.
In the trajectory predicted, “Sam” will continue to pass away from the northern part of the leeward islands, which are part of the Lesser Antilles, and on Saturday far northeast of Bermuda. According to the forecasts, he will not touch them.
The NHC expects a turn to the north on Friday night and then to the northeast beginning Saturday.
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Some fluctuations in the intensity of “Sam” over the next few days, but according to the NHC, it will remain a hurricane intense until Saturday, when it will begin to experience significant weakening.
The winds with force of hurricane extend up to 95 km from the center of “Sam” and the winds with force of tropical storm patient 240 km.
The swells generated by “Sam” will impact the extreme north of the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico over the next few days and will reach Bermuda and the Bahamas in a day or two and then the east coast of the United States.
Refering to tropical storm “Victor”, which was formed on Wednesday to the south-southeast of the Cape Verde islands and advances towards the American continent, but it is still very distant, last night it strengthened and presents winds sustained maximums of 75 km / h.
The NHC predicts that it will be further strengthened and may become a hurricane Friday, but the weekend will start to weaken.
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With two months to go until the hurricane season at Atlantic (November 30) there is only one name left (Wanda) unused on the list for 2021, which is being one more active year in cyclones than normal.
So far this year, twenty Tropical storms, of which seven have reached hurricanes: “Elsa”, “Grace”, “Henri”, “Ida”, “Larry”, “Nicholas” and “Sam”.
Of them “Grace”, “Ida”, “Larry” and “Sam” reached the highest category, 3 or more on the Saffir-Simpson scale.
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