©2020 Verizon Media. The latest coverage of hurricane season including tropical storm news, current hurricane forecast tracks, path cones and models, hurricane threats to Florida, storm preparation and more. Kerner said the county is well prepared and the shelters, and would have temperature checks and be divided into family units.
In contrast, others curve the hurricane away from Florida and directly toward the Carolinas. North … "A lot of neighborhoods were submerged under water," Lojero said.More rain is expected Friday in the Dominican Republic and Haiti; by storm's end, up to 12 inches of rain could have accumulated in some areas there, the NHC said.A man guides a tow truck under a downed power line pole after Tropical Storm Isaias affected the area in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, on Thursday.Florida closed some state-supported Covid-19 drive-thru and walk-up testing sites on Thursday in anticipation of the storm.Testing sites would remain open in 11 counties, nearly all of which are on the west coast or the Panhandle, the Florida Division of Emergency Management The division said it anticipates all sites being opened by 8 a.m. August 5 at the latest.Testing is shut down in Miami and will likely stay that way until Tuesday or Wednesday, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told CNN Friday. The Bahamian government issued a hurricane warning for large swaths of the country, and Hubert Minnis, the country’s prime minister, urged citizens to ““We know from past and recent experience that storms could change course very quickly,” Minnis said, according to the Miami Herald. Supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations and hardware stores could remain open as long as weather permitted.“These are especially difficult days,” he said during an online news conference.
The United States will certainly still be battling the coronavirus by the time the Atlantic hurricane season begins on All rights reserved. “They can intensify rapidly, as we saw with Hurricane Dorian. The latest coverage of hurricane season including tropical storm news, current hurricane forecast tracks, path cones and models, hurricane threats to Florida, storm preparation and more. 7:53 a.m.: Hurricane Isaias has winds of 85 mph, approaching Florida later today. It will move near the northwestern part of the island nation Saturday and is expected to track near the east coast of Florida's peninsula Saturday afternoon and Sunday, according to the National Hurricane Center.Water levels in the Bahamas may rise 3 to 5 feet above normal tide levels because of Isaias, the NHC said.
The list of Florida hurricanes from 2000 to the present has been marked by several devastating North Atlantic hurricanes; as of 2017, 79 tropical or subtropical cyclones have affected the U.S. state of Florida. All rights reserved.Important conversations are happening now. It is the first time on record that the Atlantic basin had two hurricanes -- Isaias and Hurricane Isaias to impact Bahamas today with long-term plans to hit the USHurricane Isaias to impact Bahamas today with long-term plans to hit the US
"Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Thursday announced the easing of a coronavirus lockdown for citizens to better prepare for the arrival of Hurricane Isaias.
The Bahamas is also dealing with a second wave of coronavirus cases. Hundreds of thousands of people in Puerto Rico were left without power and water.A hurricane warning was in effect for the northwestern Bahamas, including Andros Island, New Providence, Eleuthera, Abaco Islands, Berry Islands, Grand Bahama and Bimini.Two of those islands, Abaco and Grand Bahama, were battered by Dorian, a Category 5 storm in 2019 that hovered over the area for two days and killed at least 70 people, with more than 280 reported missing.