Hurricane Miriam Strengthens In Eastern Pacific [PATH]
Hurricane Miriam is gaining strength in the eastern Pacific Ocean and forecasts predict it will become a major storm.
But the good news is current projections from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., show that Miriam does not pose a threat to make damaging landfall.
Hurricane Miriam's strongest sustained winds have now become as fast as 105 miles per hour, which is strong enough to boost the storm to Category 2 hurricane status. Miriam is presently located about 665 kilometers, or about 413 miles, southwest of the most southern part of Baja California, but the storm is not anticipated to reach land at its current strength.
According to National Hurricane Center projections, Hurricane Miriam will not near land until late Friday evening, by which time the storm's winds will likely have slowed to anywhere between 39 and 74 mph - which would mean the system would have downgraded from hurricane strength and become a tropical storm yet again. The weather monitoring center anticipates Miriam to weaken significantly once it encounters more water and winds as it moves further northward.
Another storm system making its way through the tropics is Tropical Storm Nadine.
Nadine officially became a named storm 12 days ago. It then increased to hurricane strength about one week ago, but it has since weakened and returned to tropical storm-level winds.
Tropical Storm Nadine is currently moving through "marginally favorable ocean waters," which means it could reach hurricane strength once more, according to forecasts from The Weather Channel. But the atmospheric conditions are somewhat unfavorable, so it's more likely that Nadine will calm down and its winds will grow weaker as the storm slowly moves westward into warmer waters.
As of early Monday, Tropical Storm Nadine's sustained winds were moving at about 50 mph and the storm was far from land.
