By: EFE
By: EFE
The powerful Category 3 Hurricane Larry maintains its strong winds of 205 kilometers per hour (125 miles) and threatens between this Sunday and next week with rip currents to the US and Canadian coasts and to the Antilles archipelago.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English), Larry is about 1 .415 kilometres (880 miles) east of the North Leeward Islands and about 2. 60 kilometers (1. 285 miles ) southeast of Bermuda.
The NHC anticipates that the waves generated by Larry will reach the Lesser Antilles today and spread to portions of the Greater Antilles, the Bahamas and Bermuda on Monday and Tuesday.
A significant swell is likely to reach east of the US and Canadian coasts and causing dangerous rip currents in the middle of next week. The system is moving northwest to near 20 kilometers per hour.
Little change in strength is forecast over the next few days, although fluctuations in intensity will be possible. Larry, a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale out of 5, will remain at that strength for the first part of next week, according to meteorologists.
Hurricane force winds extend outward until 75 kilometres (45 miles) from the center to 280 kilometers (175 miles) hard tropical storm.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts that the current hurricane season in the Atlantic will have an activity above the average .
So far this year, four hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic basin, Henri, Grace, Elsa and Ida , the latter reached category 3 intensity of the Saffir-Simpson scale, with a maximum 5 mo, and caused death and destruction in the Caribbean and the United States.
Hurricane # Larry Advisory 22: Large Larry Lumbering Across the Open Atlantic. Dangerous Surf and Rip Currents Along Western Atlantic Shores Expected Later This Week. https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc
– National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 6, 880
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