Another hurricane may be heading for the U.S. by Sean Batty
The sixth tropical depression of the Atlantic storm season formed in the mid-Atlantic on Sunday afternoon just over 1,500 miles east of the Leeward Islands.
The National Weather Service (NWS) have said that long-range computer tracking models take the swirling mass of thunderstorms north of the Caribbean, but also show it reaching hurricane status. Hurricane status is reached when a storm’s sustained winds reach 74mph.
The depression is expected to become Tropical Storm Florence at some point this afternoon (Monday) as her winds reach a sustained 39mph. She should then go on to intensify becoming a hurricane by Thursday.
This comes as the remnants of Hurricane Ernesto rain down on the northeastern states of America.
Ernesto reached hurricane status a week ago near Haiti and made landfall twice, first in Florida and then on the mid-Atlantic coast in South Carolina where it brought torrential rain and flooding.
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