Tropical storm Fiona moved further south in the Caribbean and led the Dominican authorities to declare a possible hurricane alert in sectors of that country, as well as several areas of Puerto Rico, the National Center for Hurricanes (NHC, in English).
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A flyby of the US Air Force Hurricane Hunter found the hitherto tropical storm a little further to the south.detailed the NHC in its most recent bulletin.
The storm, which has maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour (60 miles) and is moving west at 20 kilometers per hour (13 miles), may become a hurricane when it approaches Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic during the end of week.
The Government of the Dominican Republic issued a hurricane watch for the southern coast from Cabo Engano west to Cabo Caucedo, meteorologists from the Miami-based NHC said.
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Similarly, the alert includes the north coast from Cabo Engano west to Puerto Plata.
The NHC also detailed that alerts are maintained for monitoring a possible hurricane for Puerto Rico, including Vieques and Culebra. The agency foresees a turn to the northwest early next week, but so far it does not represent a danger to the US coast. .
The center of Fiona is expected to move near or just south of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today through Sunday, and approach the south and east coast of the Dominican Republic on Sunday night and Monday.
Meanwhile, the threat from Fiona, which was 230 kilometers (145 miles) southeast of St Croix, one of the US Virgin Islands, has been lifted for Antigua and Barbuda, whose storm warning has been lifted. tropical.
So far this hurricane season (June 1-November 30), seven named storms have formed in the Atlantic basin, of which two, Danielle and Earl, have reached hurricane status.
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