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Caribbean Casts Wary Eye on Hurricane Frances
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Caribbean Casts Wary Eye on Hurricane Frances
Aug 30, 6:31 PM (ET)
By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - The small tourist islands of the northern Caribbean were on alert on Monday for a close encounter with powerful Hurricane Frances, while the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston limped through North Carolina.
Another tropical storm, Hermine, chugged through the north Atlantic at the end of a busy month that saw the formation of eight tropical storms, four of which became hurricanes.
Weakened slightly, Frances was expected to move north of the Caribbean islands in the next two days, but was likely to be close enough to brush Antigua, Anguilla and other islands with tropical storm-force winds of 39-73 mph. The storm's outer bands were expected to start hitting the northern Leeward islands later on Monday.
Tropical storm warnings were issued for Antigua and Barbuda, Sint Maarten, Anguilla, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Eustatius and Saba, telling residents to expect storm conditions in 24 hours.
Tropical storm warnings were also issued for Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory of about 4 million, the British Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands of St Thomas and St John.
At 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, the center of Frances was about 220 miles east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands and was moving to the west at about 14 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Its sustained winds had weakened from 135 mph during the weekend to about 125 mph but could rise again, forecasters said.
The hurricane center's long-range forecast, which has a large margin of error, had the storm on a track that would take it near the Bahamas by Thursday and off Florida's east coast by Saturday.
Tropical Storm Gaston was nothing more than a cluster of strong thunderstorms over North Carolina after sweeping ashore on Sunday in South Carolina, where it knocked down trees, downed power lines and put low-lying streets under waist-deep water.
More than 8 inches of rain fell in three hours in some areas, turning streets into small lakes. The area was already saturated with heavy rains from Hurricane Charley and the remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie, which hit earlier this month.
Out at sea, Tropical Storm Hermine was expected to weaken over the cooler waters of the north Atlantic but a tropical storm warning was in effect for southeastern Massachusetts, including Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Hermine was about 210 miles south-southwest of Nantucket, carrying sustained winds of about 50 mph. It was moving north at 21 mph and was expected to pass near Cape Cod on Monday night or early Tuesday.
August has been an unusually busy month for tropical cyclones in the Atlantic-Caribbean basin. The eight storms are more than half of what forecasters had predicted for the entire season that runs from June to the end of November.
The busiest part of the hurricane season is generally from the last week of August to the first week of October. The worst of the storms so far, Hurricane Charley, caused an estimated $7.4 billion in insured losses when it hit Florida on Aug. 13.
