Tag: National Hurricane Center
Warning issued for severe wet weather
(CNS): A very active tropical wave currently extending across Haiti is expected to move over the Western Caribbean and could stir up some severe weather for the Cayman Islands over the next couple of days, the National Weather Service reported Wednesday. A week after Grand Cayman faced Tropical Storm Grace, the National Hurricane Center has […]
Outlook shows potential storms over coming week
(CNS): At least two weather systems could become tropical storms or even hurricanes over the next week or so, according to the outlook issued Monday by the National Hurricane Center. As Cayman continues clearing up after Hurricane Grace, more unsettled weather could pose a threat to our area over the coming week. A tropical wave […]
Grace passing 20 miles SW of Grand Cayman
(CNS): UPDATED 7am: Tropical Storm Grace continued to pound Grand Cayman Wednesday morning with winds in excess of 65mph as it passed some 20 miles southwest of the island. The US National Hurricane Center said that hurricane-force gusts had already been recorded on Grand Cayman this morning. Moving at 16mph toward the west-northwest, Grace is […]
Grace expected to pass 13 miles south of GC
(CNS) UPDATED 2pm: The Cayman Islands is now bracing for a close encounter with Tropical Storm Grace as the centre of the storm is expected to pass 13 miles to the southwest of Grand Cayman late Tuesday night, early Wednesday morning. According to the National Hurricane Center’s 2pm bulletin, the storm is still travelling west […]
Weather system still on brink of storm status
(CNS): Tropical Cyclone Six, the weather system that forecasters have been predicting is about to become Tropical Storm Fred for the last 24 hours, was still teetering on the brink of becoming a storm Tuesday afternoon. At 4pm local time it was located 105 miles southeast of Puerto Rico heading west-northwest at nearly 17 mph. […]
Impending storm heads into Caribbean
(CNS): What is likely to become Tropical Storm Fred later this evening could be in the Cayman area by the end of this week, according to the National Hurricane Center, which has begun issuing advisories on the weather system. The disturbance is currently heading towards the Lesser Antilles at 15mph with winds of 35MPH.
Sister Islands all clear but more rain expected
(CNS) UPDATED Monday: The all clear was issued for Cayman Brac and Little Cayman on Monday as Tropical Storm Elsa passed about 90 miles north of the Brac early this morning. Assessment teams have confirmed that no damage was caused in the Sister Islands. Although the storm watch has been lifted, the forecast for all […]
Elsa on track to trouble Cayman
(CNS): At 8am this morning, Tropical Storm Elsa was located around 780 miles east-southeast of the Windward Islands heading quickly west. Already the fifth storm of the season just one month in, Elsa is the first that appears to be on track to trouble the Cayman Islands by Sunday night. According to the National Hurricane […]
Weather brewing east of Windward Islands
(CNS): Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are watching an area of disturbed weather around 500 miles east of the Windward Islands, the first weather system so far this hurricane season that could head towards the Cayman area if it develops. However, the weather experts believe this increase in showers and thunderstorms has less than […]
All quiet in Atlantic as 2021 storm season opens
(CNS): Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center in Miami are predicting a 60% chance of an above-normal season for the Atlantic in 2021 with as many as 20 storms. But the experts do not anticipate the historic level of storm activity seen in 2020, which was the most active season in over 170 years. The veteran […]
NHC begins early tropical outlooks
(CNS): With Tropical Storms now regularly forming before the official 1 June start date for the annual Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center in Miami has begun issuing early tropical weather outlook bulletins to make sure it is not caught out. There have been pre-season storms every year for the last six, but now, […]
