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Tropical Storm Philippe nears the Leeward Islands

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641 days ago
20231002
Tropical Storm Philippe

Tropical Storm Philippe

Trop­i­cal Storm Philippe is on track to pass near the north­ern Lee­ward Is­lands lat­er on Mon­day with max­i­mum sus­tained winds of 50 miles per hour (mph) with a trop­i­cal storm watch re­main­ing in ef­fect for An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

The Mi­a­mi-based Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter (NHC) said that the storm is lo­cat­ed about 125 miles east south east of Bar­bu­da and could bring heavy rains and flood­ing to por­tions of the Lee­ward Is­lands.

While the trop­i­cal storm watch re­mains in ef­fect for An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, the NHC said in­ter­ests else­where in the north­ern Lee­ward Is­lands should mon­i­tor the progress of this sys­tem that is mov­ing to­wards the north­west near sev­en mph.

The NHC said that this mo­tion is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue through ear­ly Tues­day and a turn to­wards the north-north­west is fore­cast to oc­cur by late Tues­day, fol­lowed by a north­ward mo­tion on Wednes­day.

“On the fore­cast track, the cen­ter of Philippe is ex­pect­ed to pass near or just north­east of the north­ern Lee­ward Is­lands lat­er to­day and tonight,” the NHC said, adding that lit­tle change in strength is fore­cast dur­ing the next day or so, but Philippe could be­gin to in­ten­si­fy more sig­nif­i­cant­ly around the mid­dle of the week.

Trop­i­cal-storm-force winds ex­tend out­ward up to 175 miles pri­mar­i­ly east and south­east of the cen­ter and that Philippe is fore­cast to pro­duce four to six inch­es of rain­fall over An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and two to four inch­es over the rest of the Lee­ward Is­lands.

“ Swells gen­er­at­ed by Philippe will af­fect por­tions of the At­lantic coasts of the north­ern Lee­ward Is­lands, the Vir­gin Is­lands, and Puer­to Ri­co through mid­week. These swells are like­ly to cause life-threat­en­ing surf and rip cur­rent con­di­tions,” the NHC warned.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos, Oct 2, CMC

CMC/af/ir/2023

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