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Miami (USA).- Subtropical storm Karen emerged this Friday in the North Atlantic, northwest of the Azores Islands of Portugal, while cyclone Jerry causes rain in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, reported the National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English) of the United States.
Karen, the eleventh named cyclone of the season, was in the latest report 985 kilometers (610 miles) northwest of the Azores with maximum sustained winds of 75 kilometers per hour (45 miles per hour) and a northeastward displacement at 20 kilometers per hour (13 miles per hour).
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Despite its formation, the US agency predicted "that the system will become a post-tropical low tonight or early Saturday," in addition to not reporting danger on land. This cyclone arises while storm Jerry is 225 kilometers (140 miles) north of the Northern Leeward Islands, in the Caribbean Sea, where its swells affect said territory, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, "and are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions," according to the NHC. "Heavy rainfall will impact portions of the Leeward Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the United States Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico through today, which could result in flash flooding, particularly in urban areas and on steep terrain," the weather report warned. Although the NHC predicted in recent days that it would become a hurricane, it now pointed out that "Jerry is not a healthy tropical storm", while advancing with maximum sustained winds of 85 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) and a displacement towards the northwest at 26 kilometers per hour (16 miles). So far, there have been 11 cyclones this year in the Atlantic: hurricanes Erin, Gabrielle, Humberto, and Imelda, and storms Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dexter, Fernand, Jerry, and Karen, of which Chantal was the only one to make landfall this year in the United States, where it caused two deaths in July in North Carolina. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted an "above-normal" hurricane season, estimating between 13 and 18 tropical storms, of which between five and nine could become hurricanes.
