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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Hurricane Watch for Puerto Rico as Dorian strengthens

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Sharlene Rampersad
2000 days ago
20190827
Tropical Storm Dorian (right) approaching the Southern Windwards (left)

Tropical Storm Dorian (right) approaching the Southern Windwards (left)

Even as Bar­ba­dos was spared the wrath of Trop­i­cal Storm Do­ri­an yes­ter­day, Puer­to Ri­co and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic have now been placed un­der a hur­ri­cane watch by the Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter (NHC.)

In its 5 pm ad­vi­so­ry yes­ter­day, the NHC said Do­ri­an had the pos­si­bil­i­ty of de­vel­op­ing in­to a hur­ri­cane over the next few days and it is ex­pect­ed to make land­fall in Flori­da by Sun­day.

Trop­i­cal Storm warn­ings pre­vi­ous­ly is­sued for Mar­tinique, Do­mini­ca, Sa­ba and St Eu­sta­tius were dis­con­tin­ued yes­ter­day. At 5 pm, a Hur­ri­cane Watch was in ef­fect for Puer­to Ri­co and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Is­la Saona to Samana.

Trop­i­cal Storm warn­ings were in ef­fect for Puer­to Ri­co, Vieques, Cule­bra, the U.S. Vir­gin Is­lands and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Is­la Saona to Samana.

A Trop­i­cal Storm Watch was in ef­fect for the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Is­la Saona to Pun­ta Palenque and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Samana to Puer­to Pla­ta.

NHC said a Hur­ri­cane Watch means that hur­ri­cane con­di­tions are pos­si­ble with­in the watch area and watch­es are typ­i­cal­ly is­sued 48 hours be­fore the start of trop­i­cal-storm-force winds and con­di­tions that make out­side prepa­ra­tions dif­fi­cult or dan­ger­ous.

The NHC said da­ta from the Guade­loupe radar in­di­cat­ed that the cen­ter of Do­ri­an was lo­cat­ed near lat­i­tude 15.3 North and lon­gi­tude 62.5 West.

Do­ri­an was mov­ing to­wards the West-North­west at near 13 mph (20 kph) and was ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue on that path un­til Wednes­day when it will be­gin to head North­west.

The cen­ter of the storm was ex­pect­ed to move across the North­east­ern Caribbean Sea on Tues­day night and it was ex­pect­ed to pass over or near West­ern and Cen­tral Puer­to Ri­co on Wednes­day. On Wednes­day night, Do­ri­an is ex­pect­ed to be just East of His­pan­io­la and be­tween Thurs­day night and Fri­day, move near or to the East of the Turks and Caicos and the South­east­ern Ba­hamas.

Its max­i­mum sus­tained winds re­mained near the 50 mph (85 km/h) with high­er gusts while trop­i­cal-storm-force winds ex­tend out­ward up to 45 miles (75 km) from the cen­tre.


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