PHOTOS: Florida prepares for Hurricane DorianHurricane Dorian began inching northwestward over the B
PHOTOS: Florida prepares for Hurricane DorianHurricane Dorian began inching northwestward over the Bahamas Tuesday morning after hovering there for hours, and forecasters say the now-Category 3 storm will later move “dangerously close” to Florida’s east coast.The monstrous storm has been blamed for the deaths of at least five people on the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas, where it touched down Sunday afternoon as a Category 5, the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall on record. Dorian then came to a grinding halt on Monday morning and remained at a virtual standstill over Grand Bahama, the northernmost island of the Bahamas archipelago.Hurricane Dorian has since been downgraded to a Category 3, with maximum sustained winds near 120 miles per hour. But the storm has grown in size over the past 48 hours while remaining almost stationary. Tropical storm force winds have expanded away from the center and now stretch as far as 160 miles outside the eye of the storm. As a result, parts of Florida’s Palm Beach County experienced 60 mph wind gusts on Tuesday morning. (AP)Photo credits: Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP/Getty Images, Pedro Portal/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, Mark Wilson/Getty Images, Scott Olson/Getty Images See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr. -- source link
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