Tropical Storm Kate continues moving away from the East Coast of the United States and will soon pass north of Bermuda.
Kate
may gain a little strength in the next day or so before becoming
absorbed into an extratropical cyclone over the north Atlantic Ocean.
(MORE: Follow Tropical Storm Kate With Our Interactive Storm Tracker)
Highlights:
- Tropical Storm Kate was centered about 300 miles west-northwest of Bermuda as of Tuesday night.
- The latest forecast calls for Kate to become a minimal hurricane before eventually being absorbed by a non-tropical low pressure system midweek as it moves out to sea.
- Some outer bands of rain may affect Bermuda through Wednesday, and high surf will likely impact the island as well. Otherwise, little direct impact is expected as Kate's center should track well to the north.
- Kate is no threat to the U.S. East Coast.
- Kate is the eleventh named storm 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
Due
to atmospheric steering currents on the western periphery of high
pressure over the open Atlantic, Kate is currently being pulled
northeast at over 30 miles per hour.
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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