MIAMI – Residents in the Windward Islands were on Saturday tracking the progress of a large low pressure system that was becoming better organised and could form a tropical cyclone over the next few days.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said that the low pressure system located about 900 miles east of the Windward Islands – Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines – was accompanied by showers and thunderstorms and that ‘environmental conditions appeared favourable for a tropical depression to form over the next couple of days.
“This system has a high chance – 70 per cent – of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours as it moves west-northwestward at 15 to 20 miles per hour,” the NHC added.
Earlier this week, Dominica suffered an estimated EC$18 million (BDS$13.2 million) in damages after heavy rains caused widespread floods in the St Joseph area, causing the Layou River to burst its banks and a damn collapsing destroying crops and property.
Meanwhile, a tropical wave over the northwestern Caribbean Sea is producing disorganised showers and thunderstorms and the NHC said this system will bring locally heavy rainfall to portions of Central America through the weekend. (CMC)
