The storm's forecast path shows it hitting the East Coast over the weekend, possibly making landfall in Maine or Canada.
Tropical Storm Philippe is forecast to possibly slam into New England and Canada later in the week after it began heading northwards.
A forecast path map by the National Hurricane Center shows that the storm may hit the East Coast by Sunday or Monday, somewhere between Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The storm is due to pass Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands today, then approach Bermuda Thursday night and Friday. "The path of a storm or hurricane is predicted by numerical prediction weather models, which are computer simulations of the atmosphere," Haiyan Jiang, a professor of Earth and environment at Florida International University, told"The models use an analysis of the current weather as a starting point and then project the state of the atmosphere in the future. There are many numerical models for hurricane prediction currently.
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