Sunday, September 8, 2019 - 12:00 a.m. </p><div>
<p class="excerpt">As he passed through the Bahamas, he left 43 dead during the week
Hurricane Dorian, which caused at least 43 deaths in the Bahamas this week and is moving towards Canada, rose again to category 2 yesterday, with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (155 km / h), said the National Hurricane Center ( NHC) in the United States.
The agency said satellite data indicates that Dorian, which threatens this weekend with cyclone conditions in Nova Scotia (Canada), is stronger than previously announced on Saturday.
According to the report of the 14.00 local time (18.00 GMT) of the NHC, the cyclone increased its power by 15 miles per hour (24 km) as well as its travel speed to the northeast.
Dorian is now advancing at 29 miles per hour (49 km / h) and is 189 miles (290 km) south-southeast of the American city of Eastport (Maine) and 140 miles (225 km) south-southwest of the Halifax city (Canada).
The NHC said it expects tropical storm winds in parts of southeastern Massachusetts, and hurricane conditions in Nova Scotia. The cyclone will continue its movement to the northeast, according to the NHC, based in Miami.
Dorian was accompanied yesterday by the tropical storm Gabrielle and a tropical depression.
So far from the current hurricane season, which began last June, tropical storms Chantal, Andrea, Erin, Fernand and Barry have also been recorded, which became a hurricane in July shortly before landfall in Louisiana, where left substantial material losses, but no direct fatalities.
Affectations
Judgment This hurricane was one of the longest in the history of the United States after its 10 days of travel in which it left torrential rains and strong winds. Less than 10% of hurricanes, since they are registered, have been active for so long. Although the southeastern coast of the USA it was the most scourged, especially the states of North and South Carolina, the most devastating effects occurred in its beginning in the islands of the north of the Bahamas, where the deadly balance rises at the moment to 43 and still the recovery and search . In the Carolinas, where winds of more than 95 miles (150 kilometers) per hour have been recorded, tens of thousands of people remain without electricity and major floods, but the damage was less than anticipated. One of the most affected areas is the long series of barrier islands known as the Outer Banks in North Carolina.
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