BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sept 28, CMC – Tropical Storm Mathew formed Wednesday in the Windward Islands and could become a hurricane by Friday, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said.
It said that the storm, 35 miles south east of St. Lucia and 35 miles east north east of St. Vincent, was moving at 21 mph and that “a westward motion with some decrease in forward speed is expected during the next couple of days.
“On the forecast track, the center of Matthew will move through the Windward Islands – Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines – during the next couple of hours, and move over the eastern Caribbean Sea through Friday,” the BHC said