The Miami-based NHC said: Ernesto will produce tropical storm force winds and heavy rains to parts of the Leeward Islands beginning tonight.
He also stressed that the alerts for Tuesday include Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Antigua, Barbuda and Anguilla, Guadeloupe, Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy, Vieques and Culebraaccording to the NHC bulletin at 17:00 local time (21:00 GMT).
The tropical storm It is located about 475 kilometres (295 mi) east southeast of Antiguaabout 950 kilometers (590 miles) east of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Ernesto has maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour (40 miles) and moves “rapidly” towards the west-northwest at 44 kilometers per hour (28 miles).
5pm AST August 12th — Here are the latest Key Messages for now Tropical Storm #Ernesto.
Expected to bring tropical storm conditions to portions of Leeward Islands tonight & tomorrow, moving into the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico by late Tuesday.
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— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) August 12, 2024
On the forecast path it is expected that Ernesto is expected to move across portions of the Leeward Islands late tonight or Tuesday.and Tuesday is approaching at night to the US and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
It is then forecast to move away from Puerto Rico. over the western Atlantic by midweek.
So far this hurricane season in the Atlantic basin, which began on June 1stfive tropical storms have formed, Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby and Ernesto.
Of these, Beryl and Debby became stronger and stronger than hurricanes.The first of these even reached the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale, number five, causing destruction and death in the Caribbean and the United States.
This Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be one of the most active and intense in decadeswith the formation of up to 25 storms and 13 hurricanes.
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