11 September, 2017
Hurricane Jose is forecast to turn north and move across the southern Atlantic and not affect the US. Irma was declared a hurricane earlier this week.
The next update on Tropical Storm Jose will be issued at 5 p.m. Irma is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Condensation releases latent heat, which powers hurricanes.
Hurricane Irma poses a unsafe threat for Florida about two weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Texas as a Category 4 storm, causing record flooding in Houston and other areas.
Irma is still the storm with the potential to cause the most impact-Jose may not hit land and Katia is relatively stationary.
Hurricane Jose continued to gather strength far out in the Atlantic and was nearing Category 5 strength as it churned east-southeast of the Northern Leeward Islands. Specifically, the highest wind speed that is sustained for one minute at a point 10m off the ground.
NOAA in August predicted 14 to 19 named storms, five to nine hurricanes, and two to five major hurricanes for the season.
If the storm tracks over the beleaguered islands of the northern Lesser Antilles, they could face destructive winds for the second time in four days and up to 10 inches of rainfall.
Tropical-storm-force winds are present up to 45 miles out from the center of the storm, authorities said.
The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon when Jose's maximum winds hit 125 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). Hurricane Katia will make landfall overnight in Mexico and will not affect the US. The NHC forecasts Katia will become a hurricane.
Two people died in a mudslide in Mexico sparked by storm Katia, and thousands were left without power as the weather front dissipated inland on Saturday, threatening to dump rains in waterlogged areas also shaken by a major quake this week.
