HURRICANE BILL – 6:00 PM USA EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 18
Bill is at Category 4 – Major Hurricane strength at this hour. An upper level Atlantic High Pressure area is continuing to steer ‘Bill’ more to the northwest. However, a few of the tracking models are seeing another westerly shift IF the high pressure ridge mid-point moves past the track of ‘Bill’ and fails to allow it’s more northerly track. That possibility is statistically low, but it has been showing up as a constant in the recent track projections. At this time, we anticipate ‘Bill’ to continue on its northwest to north arc away from the US mainland, but if any changes to that track takes place, we will post accordingly.
For official updates, please refer to:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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