Tropical storm churns over southern Caribbean, heads toward JamaicaMIAMI - Tropical Storm Ernesto moved toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands on Saturday, threatening to become the first hurricane of the 2006 Atlantic season, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Ernesto, which formed Friday, was projected to reach hurricane strength early next week and enter the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday or Wednesday, but it was too soon to predict whether it would hit the United States, said Robbie Berg, a forecaster with the hurricane center in Miami.
“At this early stage, the message we want to send to people is not to panic, but to watch it,” said Jamie Rhome, another specialist at the hurricane center.
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