Hurricane Erin’s mass footprint mistreated the Caribbean islands with bursts and downpours on Monday, since he threatened with residence currents and floods along the east coast of the United States at the end of this week, even without an planned land.
Category 4 storm was dramatically strengthened over the weekend in a historical explosion of intensification, according to scientists, was fed by climate change caused by humans. Briefly reached its maximum point as a category 5 hurricane before weakening slightly.
In his last notice, the US National Hurricane Center. Uu. He said that the first hurricane of the Atlantic season was packing maximum sustained winds of 140 miles (220 kilometers) per hour while moving northwest to 10 mph.
Erin is “unusually large”, with hurricane force winds that extend 80 miles and tropical storm winds that extend 230 miles, said the NHC.
It is forecast that the exterior bands of the storm would throw rain through Cuba and the Dominican Republic until Monday, as well as the Turks, the Caicos and the Bahamas, where there is a tropical storm warning, until Tuesday.
These regions could receive localized totals of up to six inches (15 centimeters) of rain, according to the NHC.
The deputy director of the agency, Jamie Rhome, warned Americans who do not assume that the hurricane will not affect them simply because their track keeps him on the high seas.
“Nothing could be further from the truth for parts of the Middle Atlantic, especially the North Carolina exterior banks,” he said. On Wednesday and Thursday, waves of up to 20 feet (six meters), coastal floods and the dizzy storm “could exceed dunes and flood homes, flood roads and make some communities impassable,” he said.
Evacuations have been ordered for two North Carolina Islands, Ocracoke and Hatteras.
As of Tuesday, much of the east coast will face a high risk of potentially mortal brings and brings, which occur when water channels move away from the shore.
In Puerto Rico, an American territory of more than three million people, weekend floods flooded houses and roads in the east of the island, and generalized power cuts left residents in the dark, although almost all services have been restored.
Climate link
“Erin is one of the fastest and most intensifying storms in the modern registry,” said Daniel Gilford, a climate scientist of the climate organization of the non -profit organization. AFP.
“We see that it has intensified about these warm surface temperatures, and this makes a lot of sense, because we know that hurricanes act as heat engines that take energy from the ocean surface, turning that energy into winds.”
According to Central Climate, Erin traveled on waters whose extreme heat was made up to 100 times more likely through climate change.
The Atlantic Hurricanes Season, which extends from June 1 to November 30, has now entered its historic peak.
Despite a relatively quiet beginning with only four storms with a name so far, the Oceanic and Atmospheric National Administration (NOAA) continues to forecast a season “above normal.”
A typical season produces 14 storms with name, of which seven become hurricanes and three are strengthened in the main hurricanes.
This year, tropical activity is expected to be high due to a combination of warmer temperatures of the sea surface in the tropical and Caribbean Atlantic, along with an active monzón of Western Africa, said NOAA.
Scientists are widely agreed that climate change is overancing tropical cyclones: the warmest oceans feed stronger winds, a warmer atmosphere intensifies the rain and the highest levels of the sea magnify the marejada cyclonic.
Climate change can also be making hurricanes more frequent.
