MAKING WAVES

Bar Harbour, Maine 2007 from the series CRUISE

All reproduction rights reserved Wm. Greiner

Tropical Depression Ana, expected to reach the Dominican Republic today, is moving quickly across the northeastern Caribbean Sea. Tropical storm watches are in effect for Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, St. Maarten and several other islands in the area.

Speeding along at 75 mph , the season’s first hurricane , Bill , is expected to gain speed and top 110 mph! Bill is centered about 1,160 miles east of the Lesser Antilles and moving west-northwest at 22 mph.

Claudette , blew into the Florida Panhandle today but quickly lost steam and was downgraded to a tropical depression.