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Hurricane Bonnie could build THIS WEEK ahead of July 4 weekend after experts warned of ‘unusually active season’
TROPICAL Storm Bonnie could potentially develop into the second hurricane of the year this week ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.
Meteorologists are closely monitoring the movement of three tropical disturbances in the Caribbean, the Windward Islands and the Gulf of Mexico.
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"If I just took a casual look at conventional satellite data, I would think the system was already a tropical storm, National Hurricane Center hurricane specialist Eric Blake told the .
"There is a big ball of convection near the center, along with banding features forming in most of the quadrants of the system.
"Microwave data, however, does not show much low-level structure, with only broad curvature and no obvious indications of a well-defined center."
The Gulf of Mexico storm could dump several inches of rain on Louisiana and Texas in the coming days but does not pose a hurricane risk.
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However, experts fear that the tropical storm currently in the Caribbean Sea, Bonnie, may intensify over the week and strengthen to a .
On Wednesday, the State Coordination of Civil Protection of Oaxaca, , said they're monitoring Bonnie as they fear it could bring heavy rain to parts of the south and southeast of the country next week.
A tropical storm warning is already in effect for the Caribbean countries of Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada.
While, coastal stretches of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica and Bonaire are also on high alert.
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The storm could bring flooding rains, with accumulations of eight inches or more possible, particularly in the higher terrain, which could result in mudslides.
“On the forecast track, the system will pass near the southern Caribbean Sea and the northern coast of Venezuela today, near the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia early Thursday, and over the southwestern Caribbean Sea on Friday,” the NHC said.
Meteorologists say it's still early to determine whether the potential hurricane will make its way toward the southern US.
The Atlantic hurricane season officially started on June 1.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted that this season will be "above-normal" and is expecting 14 to 21 named storms.
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