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Aug 29, 2019
Environment: Hurricane Dorian gains might as it takes aim at Florida
(Reuters)
- Hurricane Dorian took aim at the Florida coast early on Thursday,
whipped up by warm Atlantic waters as it threatened to become a
dangerous category 3 storm.
A
washed up boat lies along the shore as Hurricane Dorian slams into St.
Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands August 28, 2019 in this image obtained by
Reuters on August 29, 2019. Michelle Robbins via REUTERS
Dorian
had sideswiped the Caribbean without doing major damage but, with the
storm strengthening, the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands lay in its
path.
In the United States, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis
declared a state of emergency on Wednesday and asked east coast
Floridians load up with at least 7 days worth of supplies, such as food
and water.
“All indications are that by this Labor Day weekend, a
powerful hurricane will be near or over the Florida peninsula,” the
National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an advisory.
The U.S.
Coast Guard warned that all pleasure boats at the Port of Key West
should seek safe harbor before the Labor Day weekend begins.
And ocean-going vessels should make plans to leave the port ahead of the storm, the Coast Guard said in a news release.
A
U.S. Air Force base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, home to the largest
spaceport in the United States, entered the early stages of hurricane
preparations on Wednesday.
Dorian, a category 1 storm, is
expected to grow into a category 3 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale
of intensity, with winds greater than 111 mph (178 km/h) by the time it
makes landfall, most likely on Florida’s eastern coast on Monday and
linger over central Florida early Tuesday forecasters at the National
Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Early on Thursday, the NHC said
Dorian was blowing maximum sustained winds of 85 mph some 150 miles (240
km) north-northwest of San Juan, and about 425 miles (685 km)
east-southeast of the southeastern Bahamas.
“On this track,
Dorian should move over the Atlantic well east of the southeastern and
central Bahamas today and on Friday,” forecasters said, “and approach
the northwestern Bahamas on Saturday.”
It is expected to become a
major hurricane by Friday afternoon and continue to gain strength until
it makes landfall on Labor Day.
President Donald Trump issued an
emergency declaration Wednesday night for the U.S. Virgin Islands,
ordering federal assistance with disaster relief for the U.S. territory.
On Tuesday he made a similar declaration for Puerto Rico, and
also renewed a feud with island officials over how disaster relief funds
from previous hurricanes.
Puerto Rico is still struggling to
recover from back-to-back hurricanes in 2017 that killed about 3,000
people soon after the island filed for bankruptcy. On Wednesday it
escaped fresh disaster as Hurricane Dorian avoided the territory and
headed northwest toward Florida.
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Puerto Rican public schools will be closed again on Thursday and public workers have been instructed to stay home.
Earlier
in the day Dorian plowed through the U.S. Virgin islands and Culebra,
an island belonging to Puerto Rico, data from the National Hurricane
Center (NHC) showed.
As Dorian moved northwest, preparations were mounting in the Bahamas, which could be hard hit.
Jeffrey
Simmons, the country’s acting director of the Department of
Meteorology, said severe weather could strike the southeast Bahamas and
the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday.
While landfall on
Florida’s coast is most likely, at four days out from the U.S. mainland,
forecasters said the storm could track north to the Georgia or South
Carolina coasts.
Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta;
additional reporting by Andrew Hay, Ezequiel Abiu Lopez, Alex
Dobuzinskis, Rebekah F Ward, Lisa Lambert, David Alexander and Joey
Roulette; Editing by Toby Chopra
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