Hurricane Season: Tropical activity goes quiet for now
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- 07 / 25 / 2011
2011 Hurricane & Cyclone Season. 2011 Hurricane Season Links. Tropical Analysis and Forecasting (NOAA) Tropical activity goes quiet for now. Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 25 July, 2011 : - - In the Atlantic, a tropical wave in the central Caribbean is bringing locally heavy rainfall to Hispaniola (the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic), eastern Cuba, and the southeastern Bahamas.
Any development of this system should be slow because of its interaction with land.
Locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds should spread across Jamaica, the remainder of Cuba, and the southern Bahamas on Monday as this system continues its way westward.North Atlantic infrared satellite - Click image to zoom EPAC: DORA
The system that became Hurricane Dora developed into a tropical depression Monday morning and quickly became a tropical storm. Dora reached hurricane strength Tuesday evening and continued to strengthen until it reached a peak intensity of 155 miles per hour (a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) Thursday morning.
Dora began to weaken fairly quickly on Friday and became a tropical storm Friday evening. Dora continued to weaken through the weekend and was declared a remnant low Sunday afternoon.
Source: www.globalsurfnews.com/news.asp?Id_news=52669
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