Storm Ernesto Evolves to Hurricane on the Coast of Puerto Rico and Heads for Bermuda
Stormy seain the coast of Puerto Rico, Aug 14, 2024 Photo: EFE
August 14, 2024 Hour: 10:06 pm
The picture may be more complex, as according to NHC, it could turn “into a major hurricane in about 48 hours”.
Tropical Storm Ernesto turned into a hurricane this Wednesday as it swept through northern Puerto Rico, bringing heavy rain and flooding and structural damage to the nation’s infrastructure.
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According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), Ernesto “has sustained maximum winds of 130 kilometers per hour (75 miles) and moves northwest at 26 kilometers per hour (16 miles)”.
The entity stressed in its 20H00 (local time) bulletin that Bermuda is on hurricane alert.
The picture regarding Ernesto may be more complex, as according to the NHC it could turn “into a major hurricane in about 48 hours”.
In Puerto Rico, this phenomenon has left thousands of residents without electricity and trees have fallen and other structural damage is reported.
“Much rain, much rain,” Edilberto Junito Romero, mayor of the Puerto Rican municipality of Culebra, told the press, adding that they have “fallen trees on public roads, some roofs are gone”.
This is the third hurricane in the Atlantic basin season after tropical storms Alberto, Beryl, Chris, Debby.
In the case of Beryl, it also had a strengthening process that made it into a hurricane that reached the highest category on the Saffir Simpson scale (5), passing through the Caribbean, affecting Venezuela, Mexico and the US.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: EFE
