Tropical Storm Dean intensifies but slows
NOAA has updated the status of Tropical Storm Dean. The report is located here. The storm path has also been updated. That graphic is located here.
Dean is approximately 1295 miles west of Barbados traveling west. It has slowed to 18 miles per hour (from 24 mph). But winds have increased to 50 miles per hour (from 40 at 5pm, eastern).
A Tropical Storm becomes a Hurricane at 74 miles per hour wind speed. At this rate, the earliest point that Tropical Storm Dean becomes Hurricane Dean is Wednesday afternoon. Obviously, that's a guesstimate.
Barbados is the most eastern Caribbean island. NOAA's storm track path for Dean still has it traveling west, towards Barbados, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, but drifting north as it approaches landfall.
NOAA's storm path for Dean now has it going south of Martinique but just north of St. Lucia and then continuing across the Caribbean (in an area with no islands) and continuing just south of Puerto Rico and Cuba.
Stay tuned to Caribbean Travel News and NOAA's website:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/#DEAN
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