Hurricane Dorian starts inching north, closer to Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas
Hurricane Dorian is beginning a much-advertised turn to the north-northwest, away from the Bahamas but toward the U.S. mainland, where it is expected to bring significant impacts.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the storm was moving northwest at 2 mph just to the north of Grand Bahama Island and was continuing its historic onslaught in the northwestern Bahamas.
Although the storm’s peak winds have dropped since Sunday and early Monday when it was a Category 5, the hurricane has grown in size, its hurricane and tropical-storm-force winds covering more territory.
Dorian, now a still formidable Category 2 storm, slammed into the northwestern Bahamas over the weekend with the historic full fury of its 185-mile-per-hour winds and 23-foot storm surge. Video and images emerging from the Bahamas show a toll of absolute devastation on Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands, two locations where the eye of the storm made landfall.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/03/hurricane-dorian-is-set-creep-north-closer-florida-georgia-carolinas-after-pounding-bahamas/?wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&wpmk=1