Tropical Storm Danielle stirs up Caribbean’s quiet start of hurricane season
Weather forecasters are monitoring a system in the Atlantic that may enter the Caribbean on Friday, becoming the first storm to visit the region in nearly two months.
According to the New York Times, the storm was “strengthening quickly throughout the evening” of Thursday.
The National Hurricane Center has reported that the system, now named as Tropical Storm Danielle, is strengthening with maximum winds of 60 mph. The center is currently watching if the storm is likely to land.
Forecasters have also been keeping an eye on two disturbances in the Atlantic, the New York Times further reported.
“One that was several hundred miles east of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean, and one near the Cabo Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa,” the report said.
The hurricane center noted that “no tropical cyclones formed in the basin during August,” calling it “unusual” since the last time this happened was in 1997.
“Based on a 30-year climatology (1991-2020), three or four named storms typically develop in August, with one or two of them becoming hurricanes,” the center said in a statement posted on Twitter.
In the small island of Dominica, the government is making the most out of the unusually quiet start of the hurricane season this year. Its projects for the ambitious Housing Revolution continue, with the prime minister visiting the construction site of a project just recently.
Last August 25, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit posted an update on the Canefield Housing Development on the west coast of the island.
“The Government of Dominica is continuing its housing programme in several communities across #Dominica to uplift the lives of our citizens,” Skerrit said in his tweet. “I led a delegation on a visit to the Canefield East housing development site where 10 units are under construction.”
The Government of Dominica is continuing its housing programme in several communities across #Dominica to uplift the lives of our citizens. On Wednesday morning, I led a delegation on a visit to the Canefield East housing development site where 10 units are under construction. pic.twitter.com/CJR5LK06By
— Roosevelt Skerrit (@SkerritR) August 25, 2022
MMC Development Ltd., the private company that has been mandated as overseer of most of Dominica’s housing projects, has partnered with local contractors to build 16 standalone housing units in the Canefield project.
“Each unit will have three bedrooms, two toilets and baths, a kitchen, a dining area, a laundry area and a porch,” said MMC CEO Anthony Haiden in an interview with The Caribbean News Now. “We are also making sure that these new houses are ready to withstand the impacts of climate change, as mandated to us by Prime Minister Skerrit. We are not just building houses here, we’re helping build better lives.”