Hurricane Sam continues dancing Monday morning as a powerful Category 4 storm and seems to have partners joining it on the Atlantic basin dance floor in the forms of three other disturbances.
The seventh hurricane of the year has maximum sustained winds of 125 mph and is crawling northwest at 8 mph, according to the National Hurricane Centre’s 11 a.m. EDT update. Sam’s reach is relatively small, with its hurricane-force winds reaching 30 miles from its core and its tropical-storm-force winds extending 105 miles. Sam is 745 miles east-southeast from the northern Leeward Islands. The storm is forecast to decrease in forwarding speed over the next day.
It is still unclear whether Sam will affect Florida or any part of the United States.
