Claims News Service, August 28, 10:50 a.m. EDT -- Hurricane Ernesto became the first hurricane of the 2006 season this morning, according to Dr. Steve Smith an atmospheric physicist and senior vice president at Carvill's ReAdvisory.
Smith went on to note that the storm moved into the Caribbean and took a northwestward track, where it overcame the relatively high levels of wind shear to become a tropical storm on Friday. Ernesto is currently maintaining a track that will bring it near the southwestern tip of Haiti this afternoon.
The National Hurricane Center's official forecast calls for Ernesto to make a landfall along the southern Cuban coastline in the next 24 hours before passing along the length of Cuba, emerging into the Florida Straights, and making a landfall along Florida's Gulf coast mid to late in the week.
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