Hurricane Bill Tracking Now Has The Storm Getting Closer To Land
August 23, 2009
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Hurricane Bill tracking reports have dominated the week, and now Hurricane Bill tracking reaches its end. Hurricane Bill tracking now has the storm getting closer to land, although the ominous Hurricane Bill tracking is already over. Earlier this week, Hurricane Bill was a threat to cause real damage as it headed for Bermuda and the coasts. However, Hurricane Bill tracking now has the storm about to merely graze the coasts, as its power significantly decreases.
According to Newsday, Hurricane Bill tracking now has the storm getting closer to Tropical Storm status. Yet Hurricane Bill is still set to create significant waves on the East Coast, causing beaches to close in Long Island and New York
City, as the Atlantic’s first major storm reaches a climax.
At its peak, Hurricane Bill was tracking at a Category 4 storm, as it built up over the Atlantic. But as expected, the storm’s power decreased as it got closer to land, and is now at Category 1. By tomorrow, Hurricane Bill tracking should mark the system as a tropical storm.
Despite the breaking up of Hurricane Bill, the storm has caused a fair share of havoc already. Bermuda was hit with heavy winds and rain from Hurricane Bill yesterday, causing heavy damage, according to ABC News. However, Bermuda was not hit by the eye of the storm, and avoided the worst of it.
Current Hurricane Bill tracking signals that the storm is close to dying down. In addition to East Coast beaches in the United States, Canada’s Maritime provinces are in the greatest danger of getting directly hit. The Maritime is already on hurricane watch for the weekend.
Not only that, the President’s vacation is in direct danger from the remains of Hurricane Bill. According to the Associated Press, tracking has the hurricane approaching Martha’s Vineyard, although the Obamas still plan to stay there as their vacation begins.
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Hurricane Bill Update Started
August 19, 2009
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Hurricane Bill Update Started:The first hurricane of the season gathered force far out over the Atlantic Ocean and appeared headed on a track that could take it near Bermuda by this weekend.
The strengthening of Hurricane Bill, along with the arrival of rapidly weakening Tropical Storm Claudette on the Florida coast and the formation of Tropical Storm Ana late last week, signaled that this summer’s Atlantic hurricane season is beginning to heat up after a slow start.
Hurricane hunter planes found that Bill, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, had strengthened to a Category 3 storm Tuesday night.
“The wind sheer is light and the waters are warm,” said Todd Kimberlain, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center. “Those are two essential ingredients not just for the formation, but also the maintenance, of hurricanes.”
Bill was centered about 555 miles east of the Leeward Islands, moving west-northwest near 15 mph.
The most significant threat could be to Bermuda, which the storm could pass in three or four days, Mr. Kimberlain said. But it also could move directly between Bermuda and the eastern coast of the U.S. without making landfall.
Federal forecasters only provide five-day forecasts for hurricanes and have difficulty making reliable projections of the storms’ paths beyond three days. Storms also can change direction at short notice.
Citing warm ocean water and light wind shear, Dennis Feltgen, a National Hurricane Center spokesman, said Bill was “in a very good environment to continue to strengthen.”
The last time a Category Three hurricane hit a U.S. landmass was in 2005, when Hurricane Wilma caused an estimated $20 billion in damage.
A government spokesman in Bermuda said the island’s Emergency Measures Organization will meet Tuesday to review preparedness. The last hurricane to cause significant damage in Bermuda was Hurricane Fabian, which killed four people in 2003.
The NHC meanwhile downgraded Claudette, the first tropical storm to strike the U.S. mainland this year, to a tropical depression after its wind force fell below 39 mph. Claudette formed quickly Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico but dissipated after crossing into Florida’s Panhandle and neighboring Alabama early Monday morning.
Florida received between three and five inches of rain, with only isolated minor cases of flooding, according to Florida’s Division of Emergency Management. “It wasn’t the greatest of beach days yesterday and today,” said Mike Stone, a spokesman.
Alabama also was spared any major damage. “It’s a rain event,” said Yasame Richardson, a spokeswoman at Alabama’s Emergency Management Agency.
By this time last year, six named storms, including two hurricanes, Bertha and Dolly, had already formed. Tropical storms have winds of 39 to 74 mph; storms with higher wind-speeds are upgraded to hurricanes.
The hurricane center also said Monday that Ana had dissipated over the Atlantic and was about 140 miles west-southwest of Puerto Rico as of Monday afternoon. Ana was the first named tropical storm of the season, which begins June 1 and ends November 30.
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