Tropical Storm Felix strengthens over Caribbean, heads west
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| Published on Saturday, September 1, 2007 |
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By Alex Morales
MIAMI, USA (Bloomberg): Tropical Storm Felix, which today became the sixth named storm of the 2007 hurricane season, gained strength near Grenada in the eastern Caribbean, the US National Hurricane Center said.
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| Tropical Storm Felix 6: 5-day forecast track. NOAA/NHC graphic |
The system's maximum sustained winds strengthened to about 45 miles (72 kilometers) per hour by 8 a.m. Miami time from 40 mph three hours earlier, the center said in the latest advisory. The threshold for a tropical storm is 39 mph.
Felix was about 75 miles west-northwest of Grenada and moving west at 18 mph, the center said. The storm may strengthen into a hurricane, with winds of at least 74 mph, over the next five days. It may brush Honduras before making landfall in Belize on Sept. 5, according to the center's five-day forecast.
In the Caribbean, storm warnings were in place for Grenada and the Dutch islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, the hurricane center said. In Venezuela, the coast from Cumana to Pedernales, including the holiday island of Margarita, was under storm watch.
``Felix will move farther away from the southern Windward Islands later this morning and will be passing near or to the north of the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao late tonight or early Sunday morning,'' the hurricane center said.
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