Hurricane Tammy shifted into an extratropical cyclone on Thursday with a path that will keep its large windfield away from Bermuda, according to the National Hurricane Center.
As of 5 am. in what will be the NHC’s last advisory, the center of Tammy was located about 395 miles east-southeast of Bermuda moving north at 12 mph. While no longer classified as a tropical cyclone, winds up to 85 mph was tracked and tropical-storm-force winds extend out nearly 200 miles.
“The system should begin to move northwestward later this Thursday morning, followed by a slower west-northwestward motion on Friday.” forecasters said. “Some weakening is expected during the next few days.”
The track has it approaching Bermuda, but then being sucked back eastward in the open Atlantic.
Tammy hit the Caribbean island of Barbuda on the weekend before moving north into the Atlantic.
Here's how the 2023 Atlantic #hurricane season stacks up with the average season through October 24th. Slightly to somewhat above average for all parameters, with named storms and named storm days being well above average to date. #Tammy pic.twitter.com/XgGXg6UEM9
— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) October 25, 2023
Tammy’s named status continues to add on to the season’s tally of named storm days, which increased to 97 on Wednesday.
The season has seen 20 official systems including an unnamed subtropical storm in January and 19 systems that have formed since the official start of the hurricane season on June 1. Eighteen of those have grown to tropical-storm strength and taken a name from the 21-letter list of storm names set forth by the World Meteorological Organization.
Only the names Vince and Whitney remain on this year’s list with hurricane season running through Nov. 30.
