Browsing entries posted on Thursday, August 20, 2009

• Bill could churn surf along Jersey shore

  Posted by Michael Wilson | 2theadvocate.com staff | on August 20, 2009 at 6:01 a.m.

  

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  This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 at 12:15 a.m. EDT shows Category 4 Hurricane Bill swirling about 315 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands. The system remains very well organized as it treks northeastward at around 17 mph. Elsewhere scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms develop in Central America and Haiti.

  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Hurricane Bill could turn the Jersey shore into a surfer's paradise over the weekend.

  Forecasters say the storm is expected to whip up the ocean as it passes hundreds of miles off the state's coast. The National Weather Service says waves will build late Friday and over the weekend.

  However, swimmers might find themselves on the sand and out of the surf. Officials say there's a high risk of rip currents that could pose a danger.

  Forecasters also say scattered showers and thunderstorms may produce torrential rainfall that could cause localized flooding on Friday and Saturday.

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• Hurricane Bill weakens to a Category 3 storm

  Posted by Michael Wilson | 2theadvocate.com staff | on August 20, 2009 at 5:55 a.m.

  

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  A false color satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Bill at 12:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean. Forecasters say the first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season has increased to a Category 2 storm with winds whipping at 100 mph.

  MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Bill has weakened slightly to a Category 3 storm as it roars over the open Atlantic.

  Bill's maximum sustained winds had decreased to 125 mph early Thursday. But forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say Bill could strengthen and become a Category 4 storm again.

  Bill is centered about 325 miles north-northeast of the Leeward Islands and about 790 miles south-southeast of Bermuda. The hurricane is moving northwest near 18 mph.

  Forecasters say Bill should begin pushing large swells toward Bermuda and parts of the southeastern U.S. coast by the weekend.

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