Hurricane Erin knocks out power lines in Puerto Rico before heading north | US news
According to the authorities, the external groups of the Hurricane Hurricane Porto Rico pelled the US region with heavy rains and tropical stormy winds during the day on Sunday and gave power to tens of thousands of customers, according to the authorities.
According to Luma Energy, a special company that controls the transmission and distribution of the power on the island, more than 147,000 public services were weak in Porto Rico. Until 5.30 on Monday, 96.3% of customers had electricity service, most of them Caguas, Mayaygüez and San Juan regions, Lumma affected by the deductions that are concentrated in Luma in question X.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami (NHC), on Monday, 215km/s) in the early hours with maximum continuous winds, Erin’s Category 4 storm is directed to the storm and approached the Southeast Bahamas, he said. It was estimated that the storm would create dangerous surfing and tearing currents along the eastern coast of the USA this week.
Porto Rico and more than 20 flights were canceled due to Erin in other parts of the Caribbean. However, as the winds and rains decreased, the US Coast Guard allowed Porto Rico and the US virgin Islands to reopen on Sunday.
On Monday, around 5 am, about 105 miles north-east of the Grand Turk Island, and North Carolina was about 915 miles south-south-east of Cape Hatteras. The storm was moving at 13Mph in the north-west.
The NHC released a tropical storm clock for the Central Bahamas of the Bahamas government, and a tropical storm warning for Turks and Caicos Islands and Southeast Bahamas remained in force.
Additional strengthening for Monday was estimated and then gradually slimming was observed – but Erin was expected to remain a large, large hurricane in the middle of the week.
Hurricane strong winds and tropical stormy winds extend from the center up to 60 miles extend to 230 miles. The strong wind area is expected to grow further in the next few days.
The sooner of this size will affect the coastal areas, although it is not predicted to go directly to a land.
Dare County, North Carolina, declared an emergency and ordered the fine tension of the low barrier islands to the Atlantic Ocean, starting in the external banks of Hatteras Island on Monday. The US National Air Service (NWS) said that a few days of heavy surfing and high winds and waves can wash the North Carolina State Motorway 12 along the barrier islands.
Erin, the first hurricane of the year, reached a highly dangerous category 5 status on Saturday with a 160Mph wind before weakening.
“You’re dealing with a big hurricane,” said Richard Pasch of NHC. “The density is fluctuating. In any case, a dangerous hurricane.”
The rude ocean conditions were estimated for Virgin Islands, Porto Rico, Hispaniola and Turks and parts of Caicos. Life -threatening surfing and RIP currents, when the soldier returned to the north, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the East coast of the United States and the Atlantic coast of Canada were estimated to the middle of the week.
Scientists attributed the rapid intensification of the hurricanes in the Atlantic to a climate change directed by human -based greenhouse gas emissions. Global warming causes the atmosphere to hold more water vapor and increase the ocean temperatures, and warmer water makes hurricanes more rain and strengthening faster.
