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 19 July 2008 15:42 BST

Hurricane Felix gathers strength

Sunday, 02 Sep 2007 08:35
Hurricane Felix threatens the Caribbean
The Caribbean island of Aruba faces the full onslaught of Hurricane Felix in the next 24 hours.

The US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) recently upgraded Felix from a category one to category two hurricane on the Saffir-Sampson scale. It also warned that the weather system could strengthen further in the coming hours.

"Hurricane Felix could become a major hurricane during the next 24 hours," a statement issued at 05:00 local time (09:00 BST) said, adding that maximum sustained gusts are close to 100mph.

Aruba, off Venezuela's north coast, is on hurricane watch, as are the islands of Bonaire and Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles.

Jamaica, which suffered last month as Hurricane Dean passed close by, is under a tropical storm watch but Felix's project path is expected to pass much further south across the Caribbean Sea in the next three days.

Meteorologists say it could eventually make a landfall in either the central American states of Nicaragua, Honduras or Belize.

"Interests elsewhere in the central and western Caribbean sea should closely monitor the progress of this system," the NHC statement added.

Observers hope the hurricane will not have the same impact Dean did as it swept across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The former category five hurricane killed at least 20 people.End of story


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