MIAMI, Florida – Potential Tropical Cyclone 22 is already dumping heavy rain on parts of Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti this Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
According to Thursday’s NHC bulletin at 7 p.m. ET, the system was located 345 miles west-southwest of Kingston, Jamaica and 130 miles east-northeast of Cape Gracias a Dios, on the Honduras-Nicaragua border.
The storm had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was moving north-northeast at a speed of 9 mph. It is expected to become a tropical storm very soon.
CURRENT MONITORING
- Watch out for tropical storms:
- Jamaica
- Haiti
- Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Gramma, Holguín and Las Tunas provinces in Cuba
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Southeastern Bahamas
THIS IS HOW THE HURRICANE SEASON GOES IN THE ATLANTIC
The current Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1st and ends on November 30th.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast between 14 and 21 named storms, of which between 6 and 11 would become hurricanes. Of these, between 2 and 5 would be of high intensity (category 3 to 5).
Our meteorologist Pedro Montoro explains the formation and intensification of a hurricane step by step from the virtual laboratory.
So far, 17 tropical storms have formed during the current Atlantic hurricane season: the first was an unnamed subtropical storm that formed in January, then Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harold, Idalia, José, Katia , Lee, Margot, Nigel, Ophelia, Philippe and Tammy.
Of them, Don, Franklin, Idalia, Lee, Margot and Nigel even survived a hurricane.