![]() ![]() If more storms form, the National Weather Service will move on to a list of supplemental names, only the third time in history that it has had to do that. (Track data: NOAA/NHC) The powerful, yet small, hurricane continued to gain strength and reached a. There is only one name, Wanda, left on this year’s primary list of 21 storm names. National Hurricane Center 11691 SW 17th Street Miami, FL, 33165 . Track history of Hurricane Sam, color-coded by intensity from Sept. The storm never posed a serious threat to land. ![]() The storm is projected to stay well East of the United States. It now is rated as a Category 3 hurricane. The Saffir-Simpson scale classifies major hurricanes as Category 3 or higher, with maximum sustained winds above 110 m.p.h. Hurricane Sam peaked Sunday with wind speeds at 155 mph but weakened by that night. 23 and later strengthened to a Category 4 storm, making it the fourth major hurricane of the year, joining Grace, Ida and Larry. Sam became the 18th named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season on Sept. Sam was expected to remain a powerful post-tropical cyclone over the North Atlantic on Tuesday. Eastern time, the storm was between Newfoundland, in eastern Canada, and Iceland, with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour, forecasters said. Hurricane Sam weakened to a post-tropical cyclone early Tuesday, after lingering over the Atlantic Ocean for nearly two weeks, the National Hurricane Center said.Īs of 4 a.m. Sam underwent rapid intensification and became the seventh hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic tropical season on Friday morning.
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