Tropical storm Humberto arrives in the Bahamas – News

Tropical storm Humberto arrived Saturday with strong winds near the northwestern Bahamas, just fifteen days after Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands, reported Saturday the US National Weather Service.

"A fast-moving tropical wave travels about 1,000 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and will slowly grow as the wave moves west across the tropical Atlantic," he said. the weather service on its website.

Tropical storm Humberto will have effects on the southeastern United States early next week and on a possible flash flood in the southwestern desert and the upper center west, the agency added.

DT9 intensifies under the tropical storm #Humberto in the Bahamas pic.twitter.com/d4BWrRKzZv

– Geophysical engineer 90.2K (@ChaacTlaloc) September 14, 2019

In addition, it is expected that Humberto will become a hurricane Sunday night off the southeast coast and bring heavy rains, strong waves, which will generate currents along the southeast coast, from Florida to Carolina from the South, until the beginning of the year. next week.

In addition, the weather service warned that "there is now a slight risk of excessive rainfall that can cause flash floods in parts of the desert, in the southwestern and central Midwest".

Hurricane Dorian, which hit the ground for the first time on September 1, destroyed about 13,000 homes, according to the Red Cross.

In addition, about 1,300 people are still missing and the number of deaths is expected to reach more than 50, according to the Efe agency.

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) reported that natural disasters caused a record 7 million new trips around the world in the first half of this year.

The vast majority of these disasters are badociated with storms and floods, suggesting that mbadive displacements due to extreme weather events are becoming the norm.

As with Cyclone Fani, which caused millions of displacements in India and Bangladesh, Hurricane Idai had the same consequences in Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Madagascar.

The floods also devastated Iran, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Bolivia.

The IDMC estimates that the number of new trips related to natural disasters will triple rapidly by the end of the year to reach 22 million.