Florida, United States.
The tropical storm Claudette was approaching this Monday from the west to the coast of North Carolina with wind and rain, having caused at least 13 dead to its passage through Alabama and damage in areas of that state, Florida and Georgia, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported on Monday.
The center of Claudette, tercera tormenta tropical this year in the Atlantic basin and the first to touch the United States, was at 2:00 p.m. GMT about 15 miles (25 km) west of Duke, in North Carolina, and about 30 miles (50 km) from Norfolk, and Virginia.
It featured maximum sustained winds of 40 miles (65 km / h) and was moving in an east-northeast direction at 28 miles per hour (45 km / h).
Claudette made landfall on the north coast of Gulf of mexico in the early hours of Saturday shortly after reaching the category of tropical storm and it did so with winds of 45 miles per hour (75 km / h).
In their advance through the southeast of the USA This low pressure front was losing strength until it degraded to Tropical depression, but on the night from Sunday to Monday he regained strength and returned to having characteristics of tropical storm.
According to projections, Claudette lwill arrive this Monday to the ocean Atlantic and Tuesday, transformed into aciclón postropical, will pass just south of de Nova Scotia, on Canada, and then it will dissipate.
The strong winds of tropical storm extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km) from the center in the southeast quadrant of Claudette.
The main risk of Claudette before going out to the ocean is the rain, which can cause floods.
Alabama is the state more punished by Claudette, with a total of 13 deaths in accidents caused by rain and wind.
Ten people, the vast majority children, died atl crash a van and a car on a highway near Montgomery in the middle of a heavy rain.
In another accident, a father and son were killed fall a tree about his house in the vicinity of Tuscaloosa.
In addition, a woman lost her life whose car left the roaday fell into a stream also in Alabama, and is looking for a man who is believed to have fallen into an overflowing river in the same state.
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According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on which the NHC depends, this hurricane season in the Atlantic it will be less intense than that of 2020, but more active than normal.
NOAA forecasts the formation of 13 to 20 named tropical storms and 6 to 10 hurricanes, of which between 3 and 5 would be of a higher category (3, 4 and 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale).
This hurricane season in the Atlantic it will have “above normal” activity, although it is not expected to be close to that of 2020, which broke all-time records with 30 named storms, according to NOAA administrator Ben Friedman. EFE
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