Hurricane Tammy is on a collision course with the Lesser Antilles and is threatening with flooding downpours, rip currents and damaging winds, AccuWeather hurricane experts warn.
The Atlantic season’s seventh hurricane will pack a punch as it moves through the Lesser Antilles through Sunday, bringing heavy rain and strong winds at a magnitude that can cause structural damage.Rain and wind from Hurricane Tammy will spread across the Leeward Island into the weekend, followed by the potential for it to strengthen into a hurricane.
More than a dozen island nations there will be impacted by pounding surf, dangerous rip currents, heavy rain and strong winds, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. They include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Montserrat, Saba and St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Maarten, St. Martin, St. Barthelemy and the British and U.S. Virgin Islands.
"Tammy will bring heavy rain from Barbados and St. Lucia through the Virgin Islands through the weekend, producing a wide swath of 1-2 inches of rain for much of the area," said Pydynowski."A smaller area of 2-4 inches is forecast from Martinique to Saint Martin, along with 4-8 inches in Antigua and Barbuda."
The AccuWeather Local StormMax™ for rain is 10 inches and 100 mph for wind.Tammy is forecast to begin to move away from the northern Leeward Islands early next week.
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