Hurricane Maria: Storm grows in force to category 5 as Caribbean battered again

ninja boy

The US National Hurricane Center reports that Maria remains at category 5 with sustained winds of 160mph. In an update at 11am EST, it said hurricane-force gusts were extending for 35 miles from Maria’s center.
“Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Maria is forecast to remain an extremely dangerous category 4 or 5 hurricane until it moves near or over the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico,” it said.



Benito Wheatley, the British Virgin Islands’ UK and EU representative, has told the Guardian the archipelago is “preparing for the worst” as Maria makes its way north. The islands were devastated by Hurricane Irma, which destroyed at least 80% of structures and left no schools or tourism businesses functioning.
Wheatley, who is in New York for the UN general assembly, last spoke to representatives on the islands on Monday night. He says they are preparing for the hurricane to hit this evening.

As you can imagine the communities in the BVI after Irma are very very vulnerable. Things had begun to stabilize on the ground, with the mobilization of UK military police and humanitarian workers. But now this has all ground to a halt as people move into emergency preparation for Hurricane Maria.
People are very concerned because the shelters that they have, many of them have been weakened, many of the homes don’t have roofs, a large number of persons were staying in a home that was intended for just a few people, so they’re squeezed in.
The debris that was caused by Hurricane Irma is still there. The greenery and the trees on the hills have been badly damaged by Irma, they were basically wiped out and therefore there’s nothing to really hold the soil together, so there’s a concern about mudslides.
We know it [Maria] is going to come very, very close. We are preparing for the worst that is what we have to do, given the very vulnerable state of the communities there. Even if it’s not a direct hit, you can imagine that just a storm of that size coming anywhere near the BVI in it’s current condition could be very damaging.
We are going to need as much support as we can get going forward.

ninja boy

    Hurricane Maria is heading across the Caribbean Sea as a category 5 storm towards Montserrat, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico after causing widespread damage on the island of Dominica.

    Winds of up to 160mph (260km/h) and heavy rains lashed Dominica as the eye of the hurricane passed directly across it late on Monday. The prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit – who had to be rescued from his flooded home – said the island had “lost all that money can buy”. He added: “My greatest fear for the morning is that we will wake to news of serious physical injury and possible deaths as a result of likely landslides triggered by persistent rains.”

    There has been no official word from Dominica since Skerrit said there was widespread damage, with roofs swept from buildings. Reports said Princess Margaret hospital in Roseau, the capital, was battered and radio stations stopped broadcasting as the storm crashed over the island of 72,000 people.

    The storm briefly dipped to a category 4 before regaining strength to a category 5. On the forecast track, the eye of Maria will move over the north-eastern Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, and approach the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico tonight and Wednesday.

    A curfew has been imposed on the British Virgin Islands where relief efforts from Hurricane Irma have been halted. The governor, Gus Jaspert, said debris left by Hurricane Irma was being cleared so that it did not “turn into missiles flying at buildings” during Hurricane Maria. “Our islands are extremely vulnerable right now,” prime minister Orlando Smith warned

    The Foreign Office is warning against travelling to the BVI, Montserrat, Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

    Puerto Rico is preparing for what could be the strongest hurricane to slam the island for almost a century. The governor, Ricardo Rosselló, urged islanders to find safe shelter. “All indications are that this is going to be devastating and catastrophic,” he told CNN.

hanalisa

sekarang memang musim angin kuat ke? baru je harvey & irma, ni datang maria pulak.

ninja boy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ ... dominica-caribbean/

grouper

Br sikit sgt Allah nk tunjuk..back to back gitu.. Pusat pelancongan org2 paling kaya n berkuasa dlm dunia ni habis ranap x tinggal apa dah time Irma lalu skang maria plak dtg..

ninja boy

Is October hurricane season?

The official hurricane season for the Atlantic Basin (the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico) is from 1 June to 30 November. As seen in the graph above, the peak of the season is from mid-August to late October. However, deadly hurricanes can occur anytime in the hurricane season.

ninja boy

Hurricane Maria is edging towards Puerto Rico as the devastating storm continues its north-westerly path across the Caribbean.

The eye wall of the storm has now reached the outlying island of Vieques, the US National Hurricane Center says.

The hurricane earlier hit St Croix in the US Virgin Islands.

Dominica was badly hit on Monday night and aerial footage shows flattened houses. Details are scant as communications are down.

The storm has now been downgraded from category five to category four by the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

It lies 50 miles (75km) southeast of Puerto Rico's main city, San Juan, the NHC says, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph (250 km/h).

Maria was similarly downgraded on Tuesday only to be upgraded again to category five.

The storm began moving roughly along the same track as Irma, this season's other category five hurricane.

The governor of Puerto Rico, a US territory, has told the island's 3.5 million people to seek shelter with the hurricane poised to make landfall within the next few hours.

Artemesiaa

Nasib tak ada negara lain dalam laluannya selepas itu

nobito

Hurricane ni berlaku di pasific time perubahan angin monsun.....time nak masok musim sejuk di hemisfera utara.

matamata

Irma, Jose, Talim, Maria, and satu lagi yg baru je langgar Vietnam minggu lepas

matamata

Jose dah cecah sipi2 New York

white_musk

Kena tang negara kaper lahanat ni bala namanya.  Tapi kalau kena kat kelantan atau tapis,  namanya ujian..  

matamata

Korang  blh monitor live cuaca dunia kat website "ventusky"