Tropical storm Bret advances this Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 km/h) towards the Lesser Antilles, an archipelago that it will cross on Thursday to begin to weaken on Friday and probably dissipate on Saturday, reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC). ) from USA
Bret, which reached tropical storm status on Monday, is located about 470 miles (760 km) east of Barbados and moving at 14 miles per hour (22 km/h) in a westerly directionthe NHC reported in its most recent bulletin.
The Government of Saint Lucia has issued a tropical storm warning (storm conditions in 36 hours) and a storm watch remains (24-48 hour storm conditions) for Barbados, Dominica and Martinique.
Bret is expected to maintain this general westward motion with a increase in the speed of translation during the next days.
On the forecast track, the center of Bret will approach the Lesser Antilles on Thursday, cross this Caribbean archipelago on Thursday afternoon and evening, and then move across the eastern and central Caribbean Sea on Friday and Saturday.
Experts at the NHC, based in Miami, Florida, predict “some increase in intensity” from Bret before it reaches the Lesser Antilles.
The trajectory cone shows Bret on Saturday south of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) and affecting the La Guajira peninsula (Colombia and Venezuela).
The NHC warned in its bulletin that heavy rains are expected in sectors of the Lesser Antilles, from Guadeloupe south to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, including Barbados, rainfall that could cause “Flash floods”.
Besides Bret, the NHC reported a tropical wave located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands.
“Environmental conditions appear conducive for further development of this system and a tropical depression will likely form over the next few days as the system moves west across the tropical Atlantic,” the NHC said.