From the get-go, computer models have suggested that it would have an erratic and aimless career, but recent guidance is bringing it close to the U.S. coast by the middle of next week.
With Jose about 500 miles south of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center on Friday warned of the potential for “direct impacts next week along portions of the East Coast … from North Carolina northward.”
As it parallels the Mid-Atlantic coast, passing Jersey Tuesday or Wednesday, it would be a Category 1 hurricane, with peak winds about 80 mph, the hurricane center says.
The latest wind forecasts now see at least a chance of tropical-storm winds along the Delaware and New Jersey coasts.
It is way too early to venture precisely what the impacts might be, but Jose is agitating Atlantic waves, and the National Weather Service is saying that a moderate-to-high risk of rip currents will persist.
Meanwhile, the hurricane center now says a wave about 1,200 miles from the eastern-most Caribbean islands has a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm by midweek.
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