Tropical Storm Florence to become hurricane next week

Cairo, SEP 8 (SEE) – Hurricane Florence  downgraded to a tropical storm but is expected to regain hurricane status as its path hurls towards the U.S. East Coast in the next week.

The storm is almost 1,600 miles from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and is still as much as a week away from a potential U.S. landfall, according to the forecast from the National Hurricane Center.

The hurricane center announced on Friday that regardless of Florence's eventual track, large swells will begin to affect Bermuda and portions of the U.S. East Coast this weekend, resulting in life-threatening surf and rip currents.

The meteorologist Erin Wenckstern said:" A hurricane landfall is possible for the Lesser Antilles, an island chain in the Caribbean.''