Tropical Storm Bret gains strength as it nears Caribbean islands
Global News
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has forecast 12 to 17 named storms for this year’s season, with between five and nine storms that could become hurricanes.
Tropical Storm Bret grew stronger on Wednesday as it took aim at islands in the eastern Caribbean that braced for torrential rainfall, landslides and flooding.
Bret had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 km/h) late Wednesday afternoon and was moving westward across the Atlantic Ocean at 15 mph (24 km/h), according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
The storm was located some 375 miles (605 kilometers) east of Barbados and is expected to grow stronger before lashing several eastern Caribbean islands late Thursday at near hurricane strength. A tropical storm warning was issued for St. Lucia and the French Caribbean island of Martinique as officials in the region urged people to prepare for Bret. A tropical storm watch was in effect for Barbados and Dominica.
“We all know the uncertainty with forecasting intensity, movement and impact of weather systems,” said Fitzroy Pascal at Dominica’s office of disaster management.
A special aircraft dispatched to investigate the storm on Wednesday found that Bret had grown a bit bigger, with tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 105 miles (165 kilometers) from its center, according to forecasters. Officials said it was too soon to know where Bret’s center would pass through, but they warned that up to 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain were forecast from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe south to Grenada and Barbados.
The government of Guadeloupe warned that inclement weather would start Thursday morning and continue until late Friday, with waves of up to 11 feet (3.5 meters).
“Be careful!” officials warned in a statement.
Antigua-based regional airline LIAT and interCaribbean Airways said the storm would disrupt several of its flights scheduled for Thursday and Friday.
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