What hurricane is currently located near the Lesser Antilles?”
U.S. weather forecasters say hurricane Dean has strengthened into a Category Two storm as it spins rapidly toward islands in the eastern Caribbean with wind speeds of 160 kilometers per hour. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded the storm Thursday. It said the center of the hurricane should be near the Lesser Antilles islands by early Friday. The Lesser Antilles islands stretch from the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, east of Puerto Rico, south to Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, and west to the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao, off Venezuela’s northern coast. The center predicted hurricane conditions for Thursday and Friday on the islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Guadeloupe and its dependencies. It said tropical storm conditions are possible for the U.S.
U.S. weather forecasters say hurricane Dean has strengthened into a Category Two storm as it spins rapidly toward islands in the eastern Caribbean with wind speeds of 160 kilometers per hour. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded the storm Thursday. It said the center of the hurricane should be near the Lesser Antilles islands by early Friday. The Lesser Antilles islands stretch from the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, east of Puerto Rico, south to Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago, and west to the Dutch islands of Aruba and Curacao, off Venezuela’s northern coast. The center predicted hurricane conditions for Thursday and Friday on the islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Guadeloupe and its dependencies. It said tropical storm conditions are possible for the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Dean is the first hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic storm season. Forecasters warn that heavy rain produced by Dean could trigger life-threatening flash floods and mudsli
Hurricane Bill has formed in the Atlantic, the first hurricane of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. Meanwhile, Hurricane Guillermo has weakened to a tropical storm far out in the Pacific. Hurricane Bill’s maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph. The National Hurricane Center expects Bill to get stronger and could become a major hurricane by Wednesday. Bill is centered about 1,160 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and is moving quickly west-northwest near 22 mph. Elsewhere, Tropical Guillermo’s maximum sustained winds are near 70 mph with the storm expected to continue weakening. Guillermo is centered about 815 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii, and moving west-northwest near 15 mph.
