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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Dorian now a Category 1 Hurricane

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News Desk
1999 days ago
20190828
Dorian has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane.

Dorian has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane.

Trop­i­cal Storm Do­ri­an has strength­ened in­to a hur­ri­cane.

Do­ri­an strength­ened in­to a Cat­e­go­ry 1 hur­ri­cane Wednes­day as it blew through Puer­to Ri­co and the U.S. Vir­gin Is­lands and makes its way to­ward the U.S. South­east coast by the week­end.

Do­ri­an's ex­act path re­mains un­cer­tain, but the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter said the threat of hur­ri­cane con­di­tions in Flori­da is in­creas­ing.

The lat­est track has Do­ri­an as a Cat­e­go­ry 3 ma­jor hur­ri­cane with winds at 115 mph off the east coast of Flori­da on Sun­day in­to Mon­day morn­ing.

The storm was bat­ter­ing por­tions of Puer­to Ri­co and the U.S. and British Vir­gin Is­lands on Wednes­day as it passed just over and near the is­lands, the weath­er ser­vice said.

Both sets of Vir­gin Is­lands as well as Vieques and Cule­bra were un­der hur­ri­cane warn­ings while Puer­to Ri­co stayed un­der hur­ri­cane watch, the weath­er ser­vice said.

The storm could bring land­slides, flash flood­ing and pow­er out­ages to Puer­to Ri­co and the U.S. Vir­gin Is­lands. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump de­clared an emer­gency Tues­day and or­dered fed­er­al as­sis­tance for Puer­to Ri­co.

"Prac­ti­cal­ly the en­tire is­land will be un­der sus­tained trop­i­cal storm force winds," Rober­to Gar­cía, di­rec­tor of the Na­tion­al Weath­er Ser­vice in San Juan, told re­porters Tues­day night.


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