Tropical Storm Larry forms in the far Atlantic Ocean – Escambrai

This is the 12th tropical object of the current hurricane season

During the early hours of Wednesday, the tropical depression in the far Atlantic Ocean continued to be regular and intense and became the name of a new tropical storm, the Institute of Meteorology’s (Insmet) Forecast Center reported in its Tropical Cyclone 2 warning. Larry, the 12th tropical object of the current hurricane season.

Larry has maximum winds of 75 kilometers per hour, with higher gusts, a central pressure of 1,003 hectopascals, and is moving closer to the west at a rate of 31 kilometers per hour.

At 5 a.m. Thursday, the central region was located at 12.3 degrees north latitude and 24.8 degrees west longitude, a location that places it about 280 kilometers south-southwest of the Cape Verde islands in the waters of the eastern tropical Atlantic. .

Still far from this geographic area, over the next 12 to 24 hours, Larry will move with a trajectory near west-northwest with little change in its translation speed, gaining more organization and intensity, with the potential to become a hurricane on Friday.