Something new about Hurricane Fay Tracking
Tropical Storm Fay continues early this morning to slowly organize just off the southeast tip of Cuba with 50mph winds. The National Hurricane Center has now issued Hurricane Watches for Southwest Florida coast, and all of the Florida Keys, and Tropical Storm Watches for other parts of South Florida, likely to be upgraded later tonight. Fay?s threat to South Florida, The Keys and the west coast of the peninsula has not changed in the latest forecast computer models, and most of them are in fairly good agreement of Fay affecting Florida late Monday into Tuesday as a category 1 Hurricane. 1
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Fay was in the Florida Straits about 50 to 70 miles southeast of Key West, moving northwest at 13 mph with sustained winds of almost 60 mph, said National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read. Its tropical force winds extended 115 miles from its center. Read said Fay’s “very strong rain bands” are now affecting the Keys and parts of South Florida. Its center is expected to pass the Keys late this evening, he said. 7
Fay is moving toward the west near 14 miles per hour. On this track, Fay will move across Haiti early Saturday and will be moving very near the South Coast of eastern and central Cuba during the next day or two. 4
This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), hurricane watch (pink), tropical storm warning (blue) and tropical storm watch (purple). The orange circle indicates the current position of the center of the tropical cyclone. The black line and dots show the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast track of the center at the times indicated. The dot indicating the forecast center location will be black if the cyclone is forecast to be tropical and will be white with a black outline if the cyclone is forecast to be extratropical. If only an L is displayed, then the system is forecast to be a remnant low. The letter inside the dot indicates the NHC’s forecast intensity for that time. This is an image of the tropical storm Edouard. 3
The tropical depression that became hurricane Blanche formed from a tropical wave on July 24 while 500?miles north of Hispanola. It moved northwestward for the following days, but as it turned northeastward, it rapidly intensified, first to a tropical storm on the 26th, then to a hurricane on the 27th. The hurricane crossed the Nova Scotian coast on the 28th, and lost all tropical characteristics later that day. 8
