JOAQUIN: The 1st 2015 Hurricane Likely To Hit USA: Latest Updates

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Update: September 30, 2015, 1030 hours GMT 

Joaquín intensifying and heading for Bahamas. It will soon become a hurricane and slowly moves towards central Bahamas. It will be hovering above central Bahamas on Friday. After that it will move back into the seas again. Conditions will become increasingly stormy on these islands. Friday will be worst.

Present satellite image shows tropical cyclone Joaquín close to Bahamas 

Update: September 30, 2015, 0730 hours GMT 

Tropical Storm Joaquín which is presently hovering near the Bahamas is likely to be the first hurricane to make landfall into mainland United States this year.

The system will intensify into a category 2 hurricane soon. Most forecast model expect it to hit the eastern coast on October 4, 2015. The states to be affected are Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

The lone dissenter is the European ECMWF model that predicts Joaquín will become a 951 Mb monster by October 3 but it will not enter the US but swing back into the Atlantic.

Satellite water vapor image of Joaquín at 0515 GMT, September 30, 2015