Hurricane Kate became the fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season early Wednesday morning while passing well north of Bermuda.
National Hurricane Center specialist Eric Blake said Kate was the latest-in-season tropical cyclone to become a hurricane so far northwest in the Atlantic Ocean on record.
Kate is racing northeast, caught up in the jet stream and will soon become a "post-tropical" cyclone over the north Atlantic Ocean.
Highlights:
- Hurricane Kate was centered about 260 miles north of Bermuda as of Wednesday morning.
- The latest forecast calls for Kate to become absorbed by a non-tropical low pressure system Thursday.
- A few outer bands of rain may affect Bermuda Wednesday, and high surf will likely impact the island as well. Otherwise, little direct impact is expected as Kate passes well to the north.
- Kate is no threat to the U.S. East Coast.
- Kate is the eleventh named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season.
- Kate originally formed as Tropical Depression Twelve Sunday night, and was upgraded to tropical storm status Monday morning.
Due to atmospheric steering currents on the western periphery of high pressure over the open Atlantic, Kate is currently being pulled northeast at over 30 miles per hour.
Shower and thunderstorm activity with locally heavy rain has soaked parts of the East this week from a separate weather system.
Before Kate was named, the incipient tropical wave doused parts of the Lesser Antilles with excessive rainfall. Martinique picked up 192.4 millimeters (7.57 inches) of rain from Thursday through 8 p.m. AST Saturday. Most of that fell Friday, causing serious flooding on parts of the island.
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