Tropical Storm Kirk advances this Tuesday in open waters of the Atlantic with the forecast of becoming a hurricane towards the end of the dayand even reach a major category next Thursday, reported the US National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English).
Kirk has maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour this morning and is moving west-northwest at 14 miles per hour.
It is located in the southwest of the Atlantic basin, 935 miles west of the African islands of Cape Verde, and has not merited any type of alert or warning in coastal areas.
NHC meteorologists are closely monitoring two large “areas of low pressure” in the Atlantic that have the potential to become a depression or tropical storm this week.
One of them is located in the southwest of the Caribbean Sea and is producing strong storms as it moves towards the Gulf of Mexico. It has a 40% chance of becoming a depression or tropical storm over the weekend.according to the NHC.
The meteorological center, based in Miami, also monitors another area of low pressure located a few kilometers southwest of the Cape Verde archipelago that in the next 48 hours could lead to a tropical depression, while it moves over the east of the basin. Atlantic.
None of them represent a danger to populated areas, according to the most recent forecasts from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the United States.
This cyclonic activity occurs while authorities in the southeastern United States grapple with recovery efforts after the ferocious impact of Hurricane Helene, which made landfall last Thursday night in northwest Florida and from there left a trail of destruction in states. such as Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee.
According to the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Atlantic hurricane season, which officially began on June 1, could have “above” average activity, with between 8 and 13 hurricanes, of which between 4 and 7 would be of higher category.
With information from EFE
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