Tropical Storm Leslie, the 12th named system of the Atlantic season, is battering Bermuda with tropical-storm force winds, the National Hurricane Center said.
Leslie was about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east-southeast of Bermuda with winds of 60 miles per hour and moving north at 9 mph, the Miami-based center said in an advisory issued at 8 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time. The previous update pegged wind speeds at 65 mph.
The middle of the storm is forecast to pass east of Bermuda later today and could strengthen to regain hurricane status either today or tomorrow as it heads for the east of Newfoundland, the NHC said. A tropical storm warning is in effect for Bermuda.
Further to the east, Hurricane Michael was about 925 miles west-southwest of the Azores spinning at 100 mph as it churned northwest at 5 mph, the NHC said in a separate advisory. The system is forecast to gradually weaken over the next two days.
The hurricane center is also monitoring a tropical wave which is a couple of hundred miles west of the Cape Verde islands. The system has a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next two days, it said.
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Leslie was about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east-southeast of Bermuda with winds of 60 miles per hour and moving north at 9 mph, the Miami-based center said in an advisory issued at 8 a.m. Atlantic Standard Time. The previous update pegged wind speeds at 65 mph.
The middle of the storm is forecast to pass east of Bermuda later today and could strengthen to regain hurricane status either today or tomorrow as it heads for the east of Newfoundland, the NHC said. A tropical storm warning is in effect for Bermuda.
Further to the east, Hurricane Michael was about 925 miles west-southwest of the Azores spinning at 100 mph as it churned northwest at 5 mph, the NHC said in a separate advisory. The system is forecast to gradually weaken over the next two days.
The hurricane center is also monitoring a tropical wave which is a couple of hundred miles west of the Cape Verde islands. The system has a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in the next two days, it said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Rupert Rowling in London at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephen Voss at [email protected]