The director of the National Meteorological Office (Onamet), Gloria Ceballos says her department is closely monitoring the path taken by a tropical wave that is moving westward to the Caribbean. If the storm strengthens, it could be named Patty.
Ceballos says that it has a 70% chance of developing into a tropical cyclone within the next five days and there is a possibility it could affect the east and north of the country.
According to the United States National Hurricane Center, in the next day or so it will be known whether the wave will develop into a storm or not. The NHC says that the strong tropical wave is located about 200 miles east of the Leeward Islands and is producing a large area of disturbed weather over much of the western tropical Atlantic Ocean. The NHC says that environmental conditions are forecast to gradually become more conducive for the development of a tropical depression or a tropical storm during the next day or so.
NHC reports on 12 November 2018: “The disturbance is forecast to move westward to west-northwestward for the next few days, passing near or north of the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and the southeastern Bahamas. Interests in these areas should closely monitor the progress of this system.”
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NHC
13 November 2018
