![]() ![]() Due to very favorable conditions, the hurricane rapidly strengthened on August 24 and August 25 to peak as a 145 mph (230 km/h) Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. The storm moved to the west in response to a strong subtropical ridge to its north, and Edouard strengthened into a hurricane on August 23. ![]() Īfter becoming a tropical storm, Edouard quickly strengthened due to the establishment of an upper-level anticyclone over the storm. However, the depression remained disorganized, and slowly intensified to attain tropical storm status on August 22. Initial forecasts predicted for great intensification, including one forecast for the depression to strengthen to a hurricane within three days. A large circulation quickly developed once it reached the Atlantic Ocean, and the system organized into Tropical Depression Four late on August 19 while located 345 mi (555 km) southeast of Cape Verde. In addition, the hurricane generated strong waves and rip currents to coastlines, killing two people in New Jersey and causing numerous injuries.Ī tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 19, accompanied with spiral bands of convection around an area of low pressure. The winds caused minor damage totaling $20 million. Edouard was originally forecast to strike the northeast United States, but it produced hurricane force gusts to portions of southeastern Massachusetts while remaining offshore. It moved westward then curved northward, and persisted until early September when it became extratropical to the southeast of New England. A Cape Verde-type hurricane, the storm formed near the coast of Africa in the middle of August. Edouard remained a major hurricane for eight days, an unusually long amount of time. Hurricane Edouard was the strongest hurricane in the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season, reaching winds of 145 mph (230 km/h) on its path. Part of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season As Edouard moved west across the Atlantic, the season's sixth tropical depression had reformed and was following behind the hurricane with its own winds blowing at 35 mph (55 kph).Hurricane Edouard Category 4 hurricane ( SSHS) 'The slight weakening trend is over,' a Hurricane Center advisory said. Although the general track was expected to continue, forecasters said Edouard could re-strengthen over the next few days. The hurricane was moving toward the west-northwest at 15 mph (24 kph). EDT Monday, Edouard was located near latitude 18.2 north, longitude 53.9 west, or about 515 miles (830 km) east of the Leeward Islands. ![]() Edouard became a hurricane on the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Andrew, which leveled parts of the Caribbean, south Florida and Louisiana. However, Edouard's maximum winds kept the storm as a dangerously strong Category 3 hurricane, forecasters said. At one point Sunday, sustained winds had reached 145 mph (232 kph). Edouard had lost some of its punch and no longer was a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, one grade below the 'catastrophic' category. The storm was expected to pass north of the islands in the eastern Caribbean by midweek, but forecasters warned the projected path was subject to change and interests in the region should continue to monitor Edouard's progress. 'There's no immediate potential threat to any land mass at this point,' forecaster Richard Pasch said at the National Hurricane Center in Miami. 26 - Hurricane Edouard continued to push its sustained winds of 130 mph (215 kph) across the tropical Atlantic Ocean Monday on a west-northwest course that could spare the northeastern Caribbean. ![]()
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