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(Reuters) – A tropical storm is likely to form in the northwestern Caribbean late Sunday and lead to storm surges and torrential rains on the US Gulf Coast in the middle of the week, the National Hurricane Center announced. (NHC) in the United States.
It is still too early to say how much the storm could be violent, but the system is expected to bring in the coming days heavy rains and sudden floods in parts of Central America, the west of Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, announced the center in a morning alert. on Sunday.
The storm, called "Tropical Cyclone Potential 14", was about 2:00 am Eastern Time (06:00 GMT), about 450 km southwest of Cuba, with sustained winds of 55 km. Weather Service says.
If it develops into a tropical storm, it will be called Michael, the next name of the hurricane center's list.
A graph at the center of the hurricane showed that the disturbance had caused severe storm-level winds over 39 mph on Sunday night and that she had held them as they potentially could touch the coast of the Florida east of Pensacola on Wednesday.
Wind intensity is expected to drop as the system moves northeasterly through Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina and reach North Carolina by Thursday.
"There is still too much uncertainty to discuss specific impacts, but we know that there will be a high risk of skidding, strong waves and increased chances of rain starting Monday." said the National Mobile Weather Service / Pensacola.
(Report by Rich McKay and Andrew Hay, edited by Susan Fenton)
