Something we have never seen before: Florida braces for Hurricane Ian’s impact
Commodity that we have n’t seen in our continuance,” a US weatherman said while talking about hurricane Tampa which is spinning towards Florida carrying high winds, torrential rains and a important storm swell. Ian, now a order 2 hurricane, has urged critical evacuations as it’s anticipated to make landfall anytime in the middle of this week.
The eye of the storm is located around 150 long hauls southeast of the western tip of Cuba and Ian is moving north- northwest near 13 mph,” a Miami- grounded National Hurricane Centre said. Meanwhile, Florida could start feeling the impact as early as Tuesday.
The cast for Ian has also shown an” unknown rate of strengthening from a tropical storm to a important hurricane,” CNN reported.
By the time the hurricane moves to Cuba, it’s likely to consolidate into a order 3 with winds of 120 mph or lesser. corridor of Cuba and Jamaica are anticipated to witness flash flooding and mudslides.
A obligatory evacuation order has been issued to residers of Florida’s Tampa and analogous orders are anticipated to be issued in other countries.
residers across Florida climbed to place sandbags around their homes and cache exigency inventories on Monday, evacuating store shelves as Hurricane Ian spun toward the state.
The governor has mustered,000 National Guard members. An fresh,000 are coming from Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina and near countries have colors on buttress.
crucial West Mayor Teri Johnston said her islet megacity could be one of the first places in the United States hit by Hurricane Ian.
Johnston said homeowners and holiday
settlements had nailed up storm shutters or boards across windows as residers grazed up enough food and water to last a week.
HEAVY WINDS, RAIN IN CUBA
The first strong winds ahead of Hurricane Ian began to pound Cuba’s south seacoast late on Monday as officers rushed to void residers, secure boats and regale down homes amid warnings of a life- hanging storm swell.
The fast- growing storm is centered about 155 long hauls( 250 km) southeast of Cabo San Antonio, in far western Cuba, but has jumped in intensity in recent hours with maximum sustained winds of 100 long hauls per hour( 155 km per hour), making it a order 2 hurricane on a five- step scale.
Ian follows Hurricane Fiona, a important order 4 storm that sculpted a path of destruction last week through Puerto Rico, leaving utmost of theU.S. home without power and drinkable water. Fiona also barreled through the Turks and Caicos islets, skirted Bermuda and slammed into Canada’s Atlantic seacoast, where critical structure might take months to repair.
