Tropical Storm Bret has continued to lose organization and intensity over the waters of the eastern Caribbean Sea and its maximum sustained winds are now 75 kilometers per hour (km/h), with stronger gusts and central pressures rising to 1,005 hectoPascals, reported today the Institute of Meteorology of Cuba.
According to Tropical Storm Warning #8, Bret’s central region was estimated at 6 a.m. to be 13.1 degrees north latitude and 70.1 degrees west longitude, a position that places it about 70 kilometers north of the island of Aruba.
This system continues to move rapidly westward at 30 km/h, the report said, after which the tropical storm will move at a similar course and little changed speed over the next 12 to 24 hours into the waters of the central Caribbean Sea, where it will continue its gradual weakening until it resolves this weekend.
This Saturday at 6 p.m. is the next tropical cyclone warning for this organism, the second by name in the current Atlantic hurricane season from June 1 to November 30, which experts say will be less active than normal .
(Taken from ACN)