Posted on 09/08/2001 2:53:27 PM PDT by HAL9000
MIAMI (AP) -- Hurricane Erin formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, becoming the first hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic season.The government of Bermuda issued a hurricane warning for the island, said forecasters at the National Hurricane Service in Miami.
At 5 p.m. EDT, Erin's maximum winds had reached 75 miles per hour. The hurricane was about 360 miles southeast of Bermuda.
"It intensified a little faster than we had forecast,'' said meteorologist Eric Blake.
Erin had been moving through the Atlantic most of the week. The tropical storm had been briefly downgraded to a tropical wave.
In the eastern Atlantic, another tropical depression formed Friday.
The depression was located about 595 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands and its maximum sustained winds were near 35 mph.
A tropical depression is named when its maximum sustained winds reach 39 mph. A tropical storm is upgraded to a hurricane when its winds reach 74 mph.
Copyright 2001 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Insurance rates, anywhere along the southern and eastern coasts, have soared over recent years.
Well, I was planning to barbeque tomorrow, so it could head on up to Detroit.
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