NU Online News Service, Aug. 6, 1:58 p.m. EDT
The Atlantic storm Colin has re-intensified into a tropical storm and is expected to pass either near or over Bermuda during the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center.
On Aug. 4, after the storm had fizzled out, the National Hurricane Center gave it a 20 percent chance of reforming into a tropical storm within 48 hours.
Now Colin is once again a tropical storm and is moving east-northeast, with an expected motion toward the north later today, the NHC said. Maximum sustained winds are near 45 miles per hour.
The center of the storm is expected to pass just west of Bermuda Saturday or Saturday night, according to the NHC. "However, only a slight deviation to the east of the forecast track could bring the center over the island," NHC said.
A tropical storm warning has been issued for Bermuda, and the NHC said the island can expect tropical storm force winds on Saturday, as well as storm surge that is expected to produce coastal flooding and "large and battering waves" particularly along south-facing beaches. The NHC said it expects rainfall accumulations of three to five inches.
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide said that although sea surface temperatures in the area are slightly elevated, vertical wind shear should limit storm intensification.
Kevin Long, AIR spokesman, said Colin is not expected at this time to make a U.S. landfall.
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