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Hurricane Jose churned towards the US Northeast and could cause swells along the coast by midweek, according to the National Hurricane Center, while Norma is aiming for Mexico’s Baja California and a new system is gathering strength in the Caribbean as a busy tropical weather season grinds on.
Jose was about 675 kilometres south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It’s path could put it well off the coast of New Jersey and New York by Wednesday morning, although it may weaken to a tropical storm again by then, the centre said.
Jose joins an already devastating 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, coming just after Hurricane Harvey inundated Texas and Hurricane Irma raked Florida’s west coast, leaving dozens of people dead and upending energy and agriculture markets. In 2012, Superstorm Sandy created about $70 billion of damage after hitting the New York metropolitan area.
As of 5 am New York time, Jose was moving northward at 8 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.
Jose is forecast to remain a hurricane through early Tuesday, the centre said. Tropical storm watches may be issued on the east coast, the center said in its latest advisory.