![]() ![]() Also, for the latest public advisory on Maria, you can find it here. You can hear live updates on Maria from experts and find the latest data coming out of the National Hurricane Center. ![]() If you'd one place for the latest information about Maria along with the anticipated landfall and key messages, the National Hurricane Center Atlantic Ops Twitter account is a great resource. ![]() ![]() Live Twitter Updates About Hurricane Maria This NHC page is the absolute best place to track Hurricane Maria's path. For instance, the maximum sustained wind speed of 140 mph and it is moving to the northwest at 12 mph. The graphic also provides areas of hurricane and tropical storm warnings. You'll also notice that at the bottom of the figure there's a legend with the current information about Maria. The hashed cone is the 4-5 day model forecast, noting that forecasted track has less confidence. The solid cone extending from Hurricane Maria provides the 1 to 3 day model forecast of where Maria is expected to go. You can see that by 8:00 am Saturday Maria's trajectory puts her adjacent to the Bahamas. Overall, the 2017 hurricane season saw an unprecedented number of hurricanes, with 10 consecutive tropical storms reaching hurricane status.The front and center graphic provides the latest information on Maria including her path across the Carribean and the North Atlantic. Some of the areas hit by Maria were subsequently affected by Hurricane Irma. Maria is currently a 'potentially catastrophic hurricane' moving west-northwest with maximum sustained wind speeds of 160 mph (260 km/h), according to the latest update from the U.S. After briefly being downgraded to a category 4 storm, it returned to a category 5 hurricane briefly, then hit Puerto Rico as a category 4 - the first hurricane of its strength to do so since 1932 - with high winds up to 155 mph and life-threatening flooding. Prior to making landfall on Dominica, the storm strengthened from a category 1 to a category 5 in less than a day, with sustained winds topping 175 mph. Maria then proceeded to hit the southernmost Virgin Islands and completely decimated Puerto Rico’s energy grid. Less than two weeks later, the Caribbean island of Dominica was devastated by Hurricane Maria, which made landfall overnight on 18th September. Irma killed at least 28 people, left many injured and caused widespread damage. Dangerous flooding occurred along stretches of coast and 3.4 million homes were left without power. It almost completely destroyed Barbuda as 185 mph winds, pummelled 10 Caribbean islands and US territories - including St Martin, the British Virgin Islands, Haiti, Cuba and the British territory of Turks and Caicos - before hitting Miami and tracking up the west coast of Florida. As it moved through the Caribbean and towards southern Florida, Irma sustained winds of 185 mph for 37 hrs, making it the longest and most intense tropical cyclone on record. The category 5 hurricane - highest category storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale (a commonly used scale that attempts to measure potential property damage from storm winds) - had wind speeds around 185 mph, matching those of Wilma in 2005 which killed 87 people and cost billions of dollars in damage. On Tuesday 5th September, Hurricane Irma developed into one of the Atlantic’s most powerful storms. ![]()
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