Tropical Storm Fiona forms, will bring heavy rain to the Caribbean this weekend

Tropical storm Fiona formed in the early hours of this Thursday and is headed for the Caribbean islands, where it should arrive this weekend with heavy rains that could cause flooding, reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC, for its acronym in English).

In your bulletin issued at 8 am, the NHC forecasts that Fiona will reach the Windward Islands late Friday night and move toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands the following day.

The islands of Saba, Saint Eustatius, Saint Martin, Antigua, Barbuda, Saint Kitts, Nevis, Monserrat and Anguilla are already under a storm warning and should monitor the system in the coming hours.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic will be affected on Sunday, according to estimates from the center, based in Miami, which announced rains with possible accumulations of 3 to 6 inches, which could cause rapid flooding in urban areas and possible landslides in high areas. .

The center of Fiona was located this Thursday 545 miles east of the Windward Islands heading west and a speed of 13 mph.

It has maximum sustained winds near 50 mph, with possible higher gusts, conditions that should change very little in the coming days.

Fiona was formed from tropical depression number seven and is the sixth system to be named in this hurricane season, from June 1 to November 30 and where very little activity has been seen so far.

The only two hurricanes so far have been Danielle and Earl, which reached category 3 on September 9 and then disappeared into the North Atlantic.

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