Damaged homes are seen after Hurricane Dorian devastated Elbow Key Island on September 8 2019 in Hope Town, Bahamas. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/JOSE JIMENEZ
The Bahamas, which were hit with winds of 290km/h and 60cm or more of rain, “were extremely unlucky, and Florida dodged a bullet”, he said. “We’re seeing the future of major hurricanes,” Jeff Masters, co-founder of Weather Underground, an IBM business, said by phone. “They intensify faster and move slower.”
“We’ll never get to know how much rain fell over the Bahamas because the equipment was destroyed,” said Dan Kottlowski of AccuWeather in State College, Pennsylvania. “I wouldn’t be surprised if it was more than two feet [60cm]. Some people are saying up to 40 inches [about 1m]. The combination of the heavy rain and the surge was devastating.”
Eventually it made a brief landfall on Friday on the state’s barrier islands as a category 1 hurricane. It drenched the Carolinas, spurred about a dozen tornadoes in the region and caused major flooding.
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