All eyes are understandably on the scarily potent Hurricane Maria at the moment , but Hurricane Jose – despite being almost certain to fail to make landfall in the adjacent US – is still causing some problems for the eastern seaboard .
Right now , it ’s a comparatively frail Category One storm , which mean it hassustained windsof between 119 and 153 km per time of day ( 74 to 95 miles per 60 minutes ) . luckily , they ’re not that close to ground , and it expect like the hurricane will intertwine out of the way of northeast land before fool in the North Atlantic Ocean .
As it mislay strength and becomes a tropic tempest , Jose will still cause coarse weather condition conditions to come down on New England , Rhode Island , Massachusetts , and more . intemperate rain combine with some low - pressure related gallant will potentially result in isolated flooding incidences , which could even trigger localized landslip .
accord to theNational Hurricane Center ( NHC ) , it could have been so much worse . Jose was once a Category Four tempest , and had a ripe chance of impacting one of the Carolinas or even New York . However , it spin backwards and lost a lot of energy , becoming a mere tropical storm . It has since strengthen back up to being a frail hurricane , which is why it ’s still not completely harmless .
So if you ’re found in the northeast , you may want to fend off the seashore and make trusted you ’ve got a lumbering - obligation raincoat for the next few days .
As Hurricane Maria barreled down on Puerto Rico as a Category Five beast , meteorologists were also watching out for Tropical Depression Lee , a gathering low - pressure zone in the Atlantic Ocean that , as of yesterday , was an undetermined threat to both the Caribbean and the US .
Fortunately , it come out that it is now weaken , and has less than a 10 pct fortune of forming a tropical cyclone of any kind in the next 48 hour , and a 20 percent chance of doing so in the next five days . Right now , it ’s essentially theremnantsof the former tropic depression , but just to be dependable , it ’s being carefully observe .
Either means , it ’s probably not the Atlantic Ocean ’s last attempt at generating a hurricane . We ’re in peak hurricane season right now , so expect some more monsters to be born over the come calendar week .
