Hurricane
Kate became the fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season
early Wednesday morning while passing well north of Bermuda. Kate later
weakened back to tropical storm status Wednesday night.
National
Hurricane Center specialist Eric Blake said Kate was the
latest-in-season tropical cyclone to become a hurricane so far northwest
in the Atlantic Ocean on record.
Kate
is racing northeast, caught up in the jet stream and will soon become a
"post-tropical" cyclone over the north Atlantic Ocean.
(MORE: Follow Hurricane Kate With Our Interactive Storm Tracker)
Highlights:
- Tropical Storm Kate was centered about 450 miles south of New Foundland as of Wednesday night.
- The latest forecast calls for Kate to become absorbed by a non-tropical low pressure system within the next 12 hours.
- Conditions are improving over Bermuda, where earlier some outer bands of rain and high surf impacted the island.
- Kate is no threat to the U.S. East Coast.
- Kate is the eleventh named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season.
- Kate originally formed as Tropical Depression Twelve Sunday night, and was upgraded to tropical storm status Monday morning.
(MORE: Hurricane Central)
Current Status
Projected Path and Intensity
The jet stream has caught up to Tropical Storm Kate pulling it east-northeast at over 40 mph.
Shower and thunderstorm activity with locally heavy rain has soaked parts of the East this week from a separate weather system.(MORE: Flash Flood Threat in the Southeast Early This Week)
Before Kate was named, the incipient tropical wave doused parts of the Lesser Antilles with excessive rainfall. Martinique picked up 192.4 millimeters (7.57 inches) of rain from Thursday through 8 p.m. AST Saturday. Most of that fell Friday, causing serious flooding on parts of the island.
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