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Tropical Storm Dolly, the fourth named storm of the season, has formed in the Atlantic. It likely won’t last long.
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The latest forecast track, released at 5 p.m. Thursday by the National Hurricane Center, shows the storm on a western path toward the Caribbean but dissolving into a tropical wave before it reaches the Leeward Islands on Sunday morning.
Those islands, as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, could experience heavy rain over the weekend from the storm remnants. That could set off flash flooding in some of the more mountainous spots in the Leeward Islands, the hurricane center warned.
Starting Friday, the strong wind shear that’s been swirling in the Atlantic all season and keeping most storms at bay is expected to pick up again, wearing away at Dolly.
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As of 5 p.m. Thursday, Dolly had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was racing west at a 24 mph clip. It’s only forecast to strengthen slightly, to a peak of 45 mph winds, before dissolving back down to a tropical wave.
The name Dolly has been on the rotating hurricane name list since 1996 and has been used several times.
“The timing of the use of the name Dolly for this storm is purely coincidental,” the hurricane center wrote in its forecast discussion.
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