Hurricane Tammy is on a collision course with the Lesser Antilles and is threatening with flooding downpours, rip currents and damaging winds, AccuWeather hurricane experts warn.
The Atlantic season’s seventh hurricane will pack a punch as it moves through the Lesser Antilles through Sunday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds at a magnitude that can cause structural damage.Rain and wind from Hurricane Tammy will spread across the Leeward Island into the weekend, followed by the potential for it to strengthen into a hurricane.
More than a dozen island nations there will be impacted by pounding surf, dangerous rip currents, heavy rain and strong winds, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. They include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba and St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Maarten, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands.
"Tammy will bring heavy rain from Barbados and St. Lucia through the Virgin Islands into the weekend, producing a wide swath of 1-2 inches of rain for much of the area," said Pydynowski."A smaller area of 2-4 inches is forecast from Martinique to Saint Martin, along with 4-8 inches in Antigua and Barbuda."With the likelihood that Tammy will strengthen further as it moves across the islands, the threat posed by the storm's winds is increasing.
Next week, the weather pattern across the North Atlantic should steer the storm safely away from any other land masses, including the U.S. and Bermuda."As the storm curves northeastward during the early to middle part of next week, it is expected to maintain hurricane intensity," said Pydynowski.
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