Hurricane Humberto went to a category 4 storm on Friday and is expected to strengthen more, the forecasters said, but he should stay at sea and far from the East Coast of the United States.
The storm, one of the two meteorological systems in the Atlantic, had maximum sustained winds of 145 MPH around 11 p.m., the National Hurricane Center said in an update.
There were no coastal watches or warnings on Friday evening. The forecasting track shows a path planned to the northwest and then northeast and northeast, passing between the American east coast and the Bermuda, according to the Hurricane Center.
A second disturbance should strengthen a tropical storm and could affect the United States
The potential tropical cyclone 9 was northwest of the eastern point of Cuba on Friday evening and was to become a tropical storm this weekend, said the Hurricane center.
“The system is expected to be intensity or near the hurricane when it approaches the southeast coast of the United States at the start of next week, where there is a risk of a wave of storm and impact on the wind,” the center said in a forecast discussion on Friday evening.
A warning of tropical storm was in place for the Bahamas of the center and a tropical watch was in place for some parts of the North West Bahamas, the agency announced on Friday.
The maximum winds supported for this storm were 35 MPH on Friday evening, he said. A tropical storm supported winds from 39 to 73 MPH.
The disturbance could cause a rain foot for the east of Cuba and 4 to 8 inches of rain in the Bahamas.
It should move north next to the Atlantic coast of Florida and to South Carolina by Monday and Tuesday, according to the Hurricane Center map on its possible track.
“There is much more uncertainty in track forecasts after day 3, but at the very least, it seems that the system will slow down considerably and perhaps even the stand near the coast of South Carolina,” the agency said in the discussion of forecasts.
