Hurricane Dorian made landfall in North Carolina on Friday morning, hitting the beach resort area with powerful winds and battering waves. It is advancing slowly northward like a “Category 1” storm.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced that Dorian traveled at 14 miles per hour as it was moving to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a state whose coastline will suffer from its effects during the next few hours.
More than 330,000 homes and businesses were without power in the Carolinas on Friday morning. A few hours later, however, power had mostly been restored to thousands of people in Georgia.
The trajectory pattern indicates that Dorian’s eye will pass over North Carolina in a northwest direction and move over the southern tip of New England on Friday night. It will arrive in Nova Scotia (Canada) on Saturday afternoon or evening. By that time, Dorian is expected to become a “post-tropical cyclone.”
Sources: Reuters, EFE, teleSUR
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