SANTO DOMINGO |
(Reuters) - A strengthening Hurricane Irene churned on a northwest track toward the Southeast United States on Tuesday, threatening the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas with battering winds and rain and dangerous surf.
While the U.S. National Hurricane Center's five-day forecast now sees a possible landfall in North Carolina this weekend, forecasters have been cautioning that such projections can have a margin of error of as much as 250 miles.
Irene, now a Category 2 storm, was heading over the Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas. It was expected to become a major Category 3 storm, with winds over 111 mph, by Wednesday and intensify further to a Category 4 as it neared the southeast U.S. coast by Friday.
"Irene is forecast to become a larger than average hurricane," the Miami-based hurricane center said.
(more of the article)
Posted by News Sources
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 at 10:48 and is filed under News, World.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.