With this in mind, outer bands should begin to affect southern and northeastern parishes of Jamaica within 24 hours. However, re-strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.Īlthough Tomas has further weakened over the past six hours, there has been little change to the forecast track and hurricane-force winds are still expected to re-develop as the system changes direction. The best track (i.e., the observed one) of Hurricane Tomas 9. Tomas began as a cut-off non-tropical low to the east of Bermuda late in the day on November 3.
The 22nd depression of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, Tomas is the only subtropical cyclone on record to be named at depression strength. Maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 55 kilometres per hour, with higher gusts. Hurricane Tomas lashed east Caribbean islands with winds and rain on Saturday, ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines on a westwards track that could put earthquake-hit Haiti at risk. explored the sensitivity of tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts to different. Subtropical Depression Tomas was a rare subtropical depression that formed in early November of 2010. Initially forming on October 29, Tomas oscillated between tropical depression and hurricane strength more than once during its 10-day lifespan. East Coast however, is stalking Tomas' remnants and moving east threatening to swallow the former hurricane. Superimposed on the rainfall amounts is the storm track, with darker shades of orange corresponding with greater storm intensity. Tomas is now moving towards the west near seven kilometres per hour.Ī turn towards the northwest, north and then north-northeast is expected over the next 48 hours. Tomas is now a remnant low pressure area is located in the Atlantic near 26 North and 68 West hundreds of miles south-southwest of Bermuda and has a minimum central pressure of 994 millibars today, Nov. This means that hurricane conditions still pose a possible threat within 48 hours.Īt four o'clock Wednesday morning, the centre of Tropical Depression Tomas was located near Latitude 13.5 degrees North, Longitude 75.5 degrees West about 490 kilometres of 300 miles south-southeast of Morant Point, Jamaica or 620 kilometres or 385 miles south-southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The system is expected to re-strengthen Wednesday and Thursday. Hurricane Tomas flooded camps of earthquake refugees, turning some into squalid islands Friday as it battered Haitis rural western tip, while largely sparing the vast homeless encampments in the. Maximum sustained winds are near 90 mph or. The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season has produced 12 hurricanes, five of them major, but the United States has escaped a significant hurricane landfall so far.Jamaica remains under a Hurricane Watch even as Tropical Storm Tomas has been downgraded to a tropical depression. On the forecast track the center of Tomas will continue to move away from Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent this evening. “It’s obviously the last thing Haiti needs,” she said, noting that authorities were working on protection measures and stockpiling emergency supplies. but we’re stretched to capacity handling the cholera epidemic,” Imogen Wall, the United Nations humanitarian spokeswoman in Haiti, told Reuters from Port-au-Prince. “A hurricane is one of the things we’ve been preparing for. 12 earthquake living in tent and tarpaulin camps in the hilly capital of Port-au-Prince, authorities worried about the possible destructive effects of powerful winds and torrential rain on the vulnerable outdoor camps. The latest coverage of hurricane season including tropical storm news, current hurricane forecast tracks, path cones and models, hurricane threats to Florida, storm preparation and more. tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 105 miles.165 km from the center. With around 1.5 million homeless survivors from Haiti’s devastating Jan. strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.and tomas could become a hurricane by saturday morning as it passes near barbados and moves across the other windward islands. The official forecast track carries Tomas toward Jamaica, but there is uncertainty as to when a sharp northward turn could occur, and areas from eastern Cuba to Hispaniola including Haiti will be under the gun later this week. Haiti’s government and its international aid partners, which are already grappling with a major cholera epidemic that has killed at least 330 people and sickened over 4,700, were discussing contingency measures for possible severe weather impact from the hurricane next week. Tomas became the 12th hurricane of the Atlantic season on the 10 a.m.
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