The Caribbean and the French Antilles, in Guadeloupe and Martinique, fear with fear a new hurricane that threatens to become the sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, announced the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.
“A gradual strengthening is expected over the next two days, and the disturbance is expected to turn into a tropical storm overnight,” the US National Hurricane Center warned Monday in its latest bulletin.
The organization has issued warnings of a possible tropical storm for Guadeloupe and Martinique, as well as Dominica, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic.
The tropical phenomenon was located 65 kilometers southeast of Dominica at midnight local time on Tuesday. It could strengthen in the next few hours to become a tropical depression or tropical storm, according to a Weather Forecast France posted at 6 o’clock in Paris.
Its west-northwest trajectory takes it through Dominica and then this phenomenon should reach Puerto Rico on Tuesday night. A tropical wave, located in the center of the Atlantic, should transit between Friday and Saturday over the Antillean arc.