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Tropical Storm Fay kills 2 in Carribean, Florida prepares for hurricane
Posted on Sat, Aug. 16, 2008reprint print email
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By EVAN S. BENN
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Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency after forecasters on Saturday said they believe the storm could grow to a Category 1 hurricane before reaching Florida on Monday.
Flooding from Tropical Storm Fay killed two people and left two children missing in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, authorities said Saturday as the cyclone spun toward Cuba.
Florida keys visitors will undergo a mandatory evacuation beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday. Authorities are likely to also evacuate residents living in low-lying areas and mobile homes.
The Key West International Airport plans to continue operations through Monday morning.
Despite forecasters' warning that Fay will hit the Florida Keys on Monday, schools officials in Broward and Miami-Dade said they plan to open schools as usual but will be watching the storm closely on Sunday.
A hurricane watch is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, Camaguey, Las Tunas and Holguin on Saturday afternoon.
Cuban authorities also issued a tropical storm warning for the provinces of Ciego de Avila and Sancti Spiritus.
Forecasters said the land masses of Cuba have the potential to disrupt the storm's organization, but Fay could regain any lost steam as it tracks over warm water on Sunday.
Fay is expected to jog across the island nation's southern coastline all day Sunday and into Monday -- packing 45 mph winds and stronger gusts.
Sunday will be an important day to watch the storm's development, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service in West Miami-Dade County.
If Fay moves on a northwest path over Cuba, the land could inhibit any strengthening. But if it continues moving west and remains over the warm water just south of Cuba, forecasters say Fay could intensify.
''Since the official track implies ample amount of time over water, steady strengthening is forecast,'' senior hurricane specialist Richard Knabb wrote in a Saturday hurricane center advisory.
The official track -- subject to error -- shows Fay emerging from Cuba Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane and marching toward the Florida Keys later Monday before continuing along Florida's West Coast.
Weather conditions across the Florida Keys are likely to begin deteriorating Monday morning, and its center is expected to hit the lower Keys late Monday night with 74 to 95 mph winds.
Posted on Sat, Aug. 16, 2008reprint print email
Facebook Digg del.icio.us AIM
By EVAN S. BENN
[email protected]
Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency after forecasters on Saturday said they believe the storm could grow to a Category 1 hurricane before reaching Florida on Monday.
Flooding from Tropical Storm Fay killed two people and left two children missing in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, authorities said Saturday as the cyclone spun toward Cuba.
Florida keys visitors will undergo a mandatory evacuation beginning at 8 a.m. Sunday. Authorities are likely to also evacuate residents living in low-lying areas and mobile homes.
The Key West International Airport plans to continue operations through Monday morning.
Despite forecasters' warning that Fay will hit the Florida Keys on Monday, schools officials in Broward and Miami-Dade said they plan to open schools as usual but will be watching the storm closely on Sunday.
A hurricane watch is in effect for the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo, Camaguey, Las Tunas and Holguin on Saturday afternoon.
Cuban authorities also issued a tropical storm warning for the provinces of Ciego de Avila and Sancti Spiritus.
Forecasters said the land masses of Cuba have the potential to disrupt the storm's organization, but Fay could regain any lost steam as it tracks over warm water on Sunday.
Fay is expected to jog across the island nation's southern coastline all day Sunday and into Monday -- packing 45 mph winds and stronger gusts.
Sunday will be an important day to watch the storm's development, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service in West Miami-Dade County.
If Fay moves on a northwest path over Cuba, the land could inhibit any strengthening. But if it continues moving west and remains over the warm water just south of Cuba, forecasters say Fay could intensify.
''Since the official track implies ample amount of time over water, steady strengthening is forecast,'' senior hurricane specialist Richard Knabb wrote in a Saturday hurricane center advisory.
The official track -- subject to error -- shows Fay emerging from Cuba Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane and marching toward the Florida Keys later Monday before continuing along Florida's West Coast.
Weather conditions across the Florida Keys are likely to begin deteriorating Monday morning, and its center is expected to hit the lower Keys late Monday night with 74 to 95 mph winds.
I don't worry too much about a Cat 1.
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