Hurricane Joaquín is giving authorities in many countries nightmares. It has already turned into a category 2 storm with winds in excess of 175 km/h and is likely to intensify even more.
It has already started battering central Bahamas as it inches closer. Friday will be the worst for that country as the fury of nature will stand atop the islands before moving into the Atlantic Ocean.
US authorities are already on high alert as most forecast models say the system will make landfall into the eastern seaboard just near New York on October 6, 2015. And another worrying aspect is that many weather experts say Joaquín could well turn into a category 5 howling monster.
The imagination boggles.
But one forecast model is going against the herd of computer models.
The European ECMWF in its latest data predicts the hurricane is not going to make landfall into the USA ( Or Canada) but will move away harmlessly into the North Atlantic.
It will gives the creeps to the busy shipping lanes from Europe to North America but the USA will remain safe.
The ECMWF model has been uncannily accurate as compared to other forecast models, especially NOAA's GFS.
Time will tell.
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| Hurricane Joaquin satellite image . 0715 GMT, October 1, 2015 |
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