NU Online News Service, Aug. 30, 3:02 p.m.EDT
|Tropical Storm Katia is expected to become the Atlantic season'ssecond hurricane over the next 36 hours, but it is not yet knownwhat impact, if any, the storm will eventually have on the U.S.East Coast.
|The storm is currently about 630 miles west-southwest of thesouthernmost Cape Verde Islands, which are located about 300 milesoff the west coast of Africa. According to the National HurricaneCenter (NHC), unfavorable conditions for development havedecreased, and the storm has become better organized.
|The NHC says Katia should continue to strengthen and couldbecome a major hurricane by Sunday.
|For now, the storm is expected to turn to the northwest afterthis weekend as it reaches the western Atlantic, the NHC forecastsays.
|In an Accuweather report, Senior Meteorologist Bob Smerbeck says,“Any system that moves north of the Bahamas should get picked upand sent out to sea as a continuous stream of upper-level troughsmove through the northern part of the U.S. in the comingweeks.”
|Accuweather says it is possible that the storm could bring “someimpacts” to the East Coast later next week, and Smerbeck adds, “Ifone of these upper troughs or dips in the jet stream digs furtherinto the Midwest, then that could favor a more westerly track forKatia bringing it closer to the East Coast.”
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