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Miami.- The tropical storm Dexter emerged this Monday in the American Atlantic, east of North Carolina and north of Bermuda, although it is not expected to make landfall in the United States, warned the National Hurricane Center (NHC, in English).
The cyclone, the fourth of the current Atlantic season, was 255 miles or 415 kilometers northwest of Bermuda in the latest NHC report, which predicts that it will "move away from the coast of the United States and remain north of Bermuda." The phenomenon has maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour or 75 kilometers per hour while moving east-northeast at about 12 miles per hour or 19 kilometers per hour, the report detailed. Also, he added, tropical storm-force winds extend from the center of the cyclone outward to a radius of 115 miles or 185 kilometers.Tropical Storm Dexter emerges almost a month after Chantal, which was the first tropical storm of the Atlantic season to make landfall in the United States, where it left at least two dead in North Carolina in the first week of July."Some slight strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days. Dexter is likely to become post-tropical by Wednesday," the report indicated.
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The Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to November 30, will have up to 10 hurricanes and 19 named storms this year, above the historical average, according to a May forecast by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Meanwhile, the Pacific season has already accumulated nine cyclones, of which the strongest has been Hurricane Erick, which made landfall in southern Mexico as a category 3 on June 19, when it caused the death of a baby, material damage and flooding.
