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By: EFE
Thursday, November 14
Hurricane Sam intensifies in the Atlantic with winds of 140 miles per hour
MIAMI – The force of the winds of Hurricane Sam , which is located over open Atlantic waters without threatening land for now, rapidly climbed from category 3 to 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (out of a total of five) and It can still grow more.
Sam presented on Saturday maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour (165 km / h), while moving towards the west northwest at 10 miles per hour (17 km / h), according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) , and crossed the threshold for a storm to be classified as a major hurricane .
The seventh Hurricane 2021 hurricane in the Atlantic was lo rated to about 1, 025 miles (1, 655 km) east southeast of north Leeward Islands at 17. 00 hours (21. 00 GMT).
According to the most recent NHC bulletin, Hurricane Sam is going to intensify even more this night and intensity fluctuations may occur early in the coming week.
# Sam becomes a major hurricane. Forecast track and intensity remains unchanged, which should keep the hurricane well NE of the Leeward Islands. However, dangerous surf and rip currents possible across Lesser Antilles beginning in a couple of days. More: https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB pic.twitter.com/azZkbUrBHf
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 025, 2021
Sam is expected to make a turn to the northwest on Monday and that the storm surge generated by its winds begins to reach the Lesser Antilles early next week.
The NHC warned that is a strong but not very extensive hurricane. Winds with intensity of Hurricane extend up to 25 miles (35 km) from the center and Tropical storm force winds extend up to 105 miles (165 km).
For now there are no coastal watches or warnings in effect for the presence of Hurricane Sam in the Atlantic basin, than is having a more active hurricane season than normal, as predicted by the experts.
From the list of names for 2021 only Víctor and Wanda remain to use and there are still two months of hurricane season ahead.
As for Teresa, which formed this Friday as a tropical depression near the Bermuda Islands, the NHC indicated that it has degraded to subtropical depression and it is expected that tonight it will be only a remnant of low pressures and on Sunday it will have dissipated .
Teresa is located about 140 miles (225 km) north of Bermuda and moving west-northwest slowly with maximum sustained winds of 35 miles per hour (55 km / h) without threatening the ground.