He Hurricane Erin continues to move this Monday through the western Atlantic with maximum sustained winds of 165 km/h and upper bursts, while keeping several areas of the Bahamas, the Turkish Islands and the Southeast Coast of the United States.
As reported by National Hurricanes Center (NHC, for its acronym in English), the organism maintains a notice of marejada cyclonic from Cape Lookout to Duck, North Carolina.
There is also a tropical storm warning for the Turkish and Caicos Islands, the southeast of the Bahamas and the coastal section between Beaufort inlet and Duck, North Carolina.
In addition, a tropical storm surveillance for the center of the Bahamas and from northern Duck to Cape Charles Light, in Virginia.
The NHC warned that these conditions They could generate floods that threaten life due to sea level increase in the next 36 hours. Local authorities have asked the population to follow evacuation orientations.
At 11:00 am the center of Erin was located at 25.6 degrees of north latitude and 72.4 west longitude, moving northwest at 15 km/h.
Hurricane Erin Trajectory
The forecasts indicate a turn to the North -West with higher speed on Tuesday, before heading to the north on Wednesday and northeast on Thursday.
On that tour, The system will go east of the Bahamas and then move between the American coast and Bermuda.
Erin is considered a large hurricane, with winds with a force of hurricane that extend up to 130 km from the center, and with tropical storm winds reaching up to 335 km.
The exterior bands of the cyclone generate heavy rains in the Turks and Caicos and in the Bahamas sectorswhere up to 200 millimeters of rainfall could accumulate, which raises the risk of sudden and urban floods.
They are also foreseen accumulated up to 100 mm in the North Carolina Outer Banks between Wednesday and Thursday.
The NHC also warned that the waves generated by Erin will impact for several days in the Bahamas, Bermudas, the East Coast of the United States and the Canadian Atlantic, with sea currents and dangerous breaking.
In the case of Cuba, the Institute of Meteorology (Insmet) He said that the hurricane does not represent direct dangeralthough moderate rains are expected in the seas in the center of the country, accompanied by swell in coastal areas.
