Forecasters said Hurricane George Daniel, the strongest storm in the Atlantic hurricane season, rising to four titles Friday after intensive behind closed by Earl, a tropical storm could hit the Caribbean in a few days.
The Miami-based National Hurricane Center, "Daniel is a category four storm on-Simpson (five degrees) range," with winds 135 miles (215 kilometers) per hour, in a bulletin before 0900 GMT.
"Some of the additional strengthening is possible during the next 24 hours".
It is expected Daniel - The second and strongest in the history of Atlantic hurricanes in 2010 - to track well east of Bermuda and then curl to the north-east and out to sea.
But it is likely that the typhoon dose chain of islands with the rain, the center said "interests in Bermuda should monitor the progress of Daniel."
It is expected that the system of weather that hit the United States or Canada, although the NHC warned that large waves and rip currents are likely to seriously affect the parts of the east coast of the United States by Saturday.
Daniel rose to power in a few hours from category II to category IV, the second highest level on a scale of NHC for.
Category four storms can cause "catastrophic damage" when it reaches land, with "very high risk of injury or death to people, livestock and pets, because of the flight and fall of the rubble," according to the NHC.
Shortly before 0900 GMT the storm was 875 kilometers southeast of Bermuda and moving northwest at 19 km / h, but were not there the center said coastal watches or warnings in effect.
Greater concern in the Atlantic tropical storm Earl, which was forecast to reach the center of the storm late on Saturday and then threatened the eastern Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, on Monday evening or Tuesday morning.
It is expected to be transformed then to the north-east, and travel between the islands of the Bahamas, and Bermuda, and constitute a potential threat on the east coast of the United States at the end of next week.
At 0900 GMT, the Earl of some 2300 km east of the northern Leeward Islands, with winds of 75 kilometers per hour.
Difficult for the two countries after the storm, and the development of the third weather system off the coast of West Africa is now threatening to turn into a tropical depression, with 60 per cent chance of growth in another hurricane in the next 48 hours over the Atlantic Ocean, and the NHC said.
Daniel is the second hurricane of the Atlantic hurricane season in 2010, after leaving the weaker but still dangerous Hurricane Alex whipped through Central America and Mexico, at least 12 people and disrupt the operations to recover oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Elsewhere in the Pacific region, continued its march Typhoon Frank away from the West coast of Mexico, although it is expected to turn sharply in the north and could threaten the Baja California peninsula in the next week, though a storm had weakened.
At 0900 GMT, it was Frank, one of a Category One hurricane, which is located about 530 kilometers south of the capital of Baja California, winds carrying 130 kilometers per hour.
Local officials said heavy rains on Tuesday, Frank flooded homes and landslides and destroyed roads and bridges in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, which affects more than 100 towns.
Authorities evacuated at least 3000 people in Oaxaca, and several thousand more in the neighboring state of Veracruz, where rivers burst their banks.
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