Norm, Lee and Otis: no more hurricanes to worry about in this season

Norm, Lee and Otis: no more hurricanes to worry about in this season

While on shift the deadly Irma is already moving potentially less dangerous Maria, the national hurricane center continues to monitor other tropical storms in the Atlantic and the Pacific. September is the traditional hurricane season, the meteorologists say that after about a month the situation will change for the better.

According to the National hurricane center, is now the Norm, which weakened to a tropical storm, is 185 miles (300 kilometers) South of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. The storm is moving North at a speed of 7 km/h.

Norm, Lee and Otis: no more hurricanes to worry about in this season

Authorities in Baja California Sur have prepared all the shelter and temporarily canceled classes in schools, as well as the planned military parade in La Paz in honor of Mexican independence Day. It is not known whether the threat from the Norm in the United States.

Now Maria looks the most dangerous, weather forecasters speak. The storm intensifies, and the worst thing – he moves around the same way as the Irma, i.e., to the Islands of the Caribbean: Guadeloupe, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, St. Maarten, Anguilla, Saba and St. Eustatius.

Some of these Islands has turned into desert and the storm claimed the lives of 38 people.

At the moment Maria is located about 545 miles (880 km) South-East of the lesser Antilles and moving West at a speed of 16 mph (26 km/h). She needs to approach the Leeward Islands tomorrow, on Monday.

Meanwhile, yesterday, September 16, formed in the Atlantic, tropical storm Lee, and in the Pacific – Otis. But, according to weather forecasts, the element will remain in the ocean and not overwhelm the land.

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