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New Tropical Storm Larry was strengthening and moving rapidly westward, after forming off the coast of Africa early Wednesday.
Larry became the twelfth named storm of the hurricane season of 2021 when it formed over the eastern Atlantic on Wednesday morning.
530 PM CVT / 193 PM AST Update: Tropical Storm # Larry is intensifying over the eastern tropical Atlantic. The latest satellite intensity estimates indicate that maximum sustained winds have increased to near 65 mph (105 km / h) https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb pic.twitter.com/h9rnQeYuwh
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 1, 2021
Meteorologists from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicted that it would intensify rapidly in a manner similar to the Hurricane Ida, becoming a major hurricane with maximum winds of 120 mph (193 kph) on Wednesday s at night or Thursday morning.
Larry could turn into a major Category 3 hurricane early next week as it heads toward the part Central Atlantic.
Tropical Storm # Larry has rapidly intensified since this time yesterday and is expected to become a hurricane tonight over the eastern Atlantic. Larry is forecast to move over the waters of the eastern and central tropical Atlantic through Monday. https: // t.co/oLAjv14 a4R pic.twitter.com/uHKGuv24 KZ
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 1, 2020
TO As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Tropical Storm Larry was located 370 miles west-southwest of the southernmost islands of Cabo Green, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph while moving west at 22 mph.
Because it is so far, there is uncertainty which course this tropical storm will take.
Kate remained a tropical depression and it was expected to weaken without threatening the land, so the National Hurricane Center will not send more information on this.
Remnants Of # Kate Advisory 19: Kate No Longer Has a Well-Defined Circulation. This is the Final Advisory. https://t.co/VqHn0uj6EM
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 1, 2020
AND Hurricane Ida continued to cause flooding and evacuations in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania .
A tornado, floods and evacuations to the Ida pass
Torrential rains of the Hurricane Ida’s remnants caused the evacuation of thousands of people Wednesday after the water reached dangerous levels in a dam near Johnstown , Pennsylvania.
The storm soaked much of central and western Pennsylvania after high tide drove out some of its homes in Maryland and Virginia.
The webcam at Elizabethtown Rd and Little Chiques Creek near Manheim, Lancaster County illustrates the dangerous flash and river flooding ongoing across Central PA. PLEASE DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS – IT’S NOT WORTH RISKING YOUR LIFE. # PAwx 📸: @ SRBCnews pic.twitter.com/dUEZXHkfE8
– NWS State College (@NWSStateCollege) September 1, 2021
The storm killed a teenager, two people are missing, and a tornado made landfall along Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay , according The Associated Press.
Ida caused countless school and business closures in Pennsylvania. Near 120 roads maintained by the state Department of Transportation were closed and many smaller roads were also impassable. Some 18, 000 customers were without electricity.
The National Weather Service (NWS) had forecast floods for what remained Hurricane Ida in a swathe of severe weather that stretched from the Appalachians to Massachusetts.
August “above than normal ”
Tropical cyclone activity in the Atlantic basin during August was “above normal” in terms of the number of named storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes, according to the NHC.
Six named storms formed in the Atlantic basin in this month ending Tuesday , with three of them becoming hurricanes and two of them becoming major hurricanes.
Grace was a Category 3 hurricane when it made landfall south of Tuxpan (Mexico), on 22 August, while that Ida was a Category 4 hurricane when it made landfall near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, USA, last Sunday.
Also, a tropical depression formed on the last day of the month. According to the NHC, based on a climatology of 30 years (1991 – 1991), 3 or 4 named storms develop typically in August, with one or two of them becoming hurricanes and a major hurricane forms in August every 1-2 years.
With information from EFE