December 05, 2005

Hurricane rages on

From the AP:

MIAMI - Hurricane Epsilon surprised experts when it regained strength Sunday in the open Atlantic, but the lingering storm still posed no threat to land.

The 26th named storm of a record-breaking hurricane season had top sustained winds near 75 mph, just above the threshold for a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Epsilon first reached hurricane strength on Friday and is the 14th hurricane of the season.

At 10 p.m. Sunday, Epsilon's eye was about 630 miles west-southwest of the Azores and moving east near 9 mph.

The Atlantic hurricane season began June 1 and officially ended Wednesday.

Epsilon was only the fifth hurricane to form in December in more than 150 years of records, according to the hurricane center. The latest that a hurricane has formed in the Caribbean was Dec. 30, in 1954.

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November 30, 2005

TROPICAL STORM EPSILON ADVISORY NUMBER 6

NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM AST WED NOV 30 2005

...EPSILON CONTINUES TO STRENGTHEN OVER THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC...

AT 5 PM AST...2100Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL STORM EPSILON WAS
LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.8 NORTH... LONGITUDE 54.2 WEST OR ABOUT
650 MILES...1045 KM... EAST-SOUTHEAST OF BERMUDA AND ABOUT 1650
MILES...2660 KM...WEST-SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES.

EPSILON IS MAKING A SMALL LOOP TOWARD THE SOUTH NEAR 7 MPH...
11 KM/HR. SOME ERRATIC MOTION IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT... BUT A TURN
TOWARD THE NORTH OR NORTHEAST IS FORECAST TO OCCUR ON THURSDAY. ON
THE FORECAST TRACK... EPSILON IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN WELL TO THE
EAST OF BERMUDA.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 70 MPH...110 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. SOME SLIGHT STRENGTHENING IS POSSIBLE TONIGHT OR EARLY
THURSDAY... AND EPSILON COULD BRIEFLY BECOME A HURRICANE BEFORE
GRADUAL WEAKENING BEGINS BY LATE THURSDAY OR ON FRIDAY.

TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 220 MILES
...350 KM FROM THE CENTER.

ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 990 MB...29.23 INCHES.

ALTHOUGH EPSILON IS NOT EXPECTED TO DIRECTLY AFFECT BERMUDA...
LARGE OCEAN SWELLS THAT ARE BEING GENERATED WELL TO THE NORTHWEST
OF EPSILON WILL MOVE SOUTHWESTWARD AND CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY
SURF AND ROUGH WAVE CONDITIONS AROUND THE ISLAND DURING THE NEXT
COUPLE OF DAYS.

REPEATING THE 5 PM AST POSITION...29.8 N... 54.2 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...SOUTH NEAR 7 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS... 70 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 990 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
AT 11 PM AST.

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