How close to the Leeward Islands is Hurricane Bill in todays recent report?”
Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north. Forecasters said Bill should begin pushing large swells toward Bermuda and parts of the southeastern U.S. coast by the weekend, but it wasn’t yet clear how close the storm will come to land. The National Hurricane Center also said people in the Leeward Islands should keep an eye on the storm, though its core was expected to pass well to the northeast of the chain in the next 24 hours. Fishermen in Antigua were advised to dock their boats. As strong as Bill already is, it could get stronger because it’s traveling into warmer waters in the Atlantic that could intensify the storm, said senior hurricane specialist Lixion Avila. “The warm ocean is like the fuel for car,” Avila said Wednesday. “If you get high octane gas you get more power — that’s what warmer water does.” Bill was maintaining a top wind speed of 135 mph Wednesday, hours after
