Dorian Depletes in Category 1 Offshore US – Information

Hurricane Dorian weakened Friday in the intensity category 1 – a maximum of 5 with sustained winds reaching 150 km / h off the coast of North Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States. .

Meanwhile, the death toll in the Bahamas has been raised to 30.

According to the latest NHC bulletin, Dorian's eye was located 70 km northeast of Wilmington and 85 km southwest of Cape Lookout, both located in North Carolina, while he was moving north-east at 24 km / h.

The agency warned that the hurricane was currently sweeping the coast of North Carolina and that tropical storm conditions are rapidly expanding northward, he said. EFE.

According to forecasts, Dorian could touch the land in the coming hours on the North Carolina coast before crossing the Atlantic towards New England and Nova Scotia.

Over the past few hours, Dorian has moved from category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale with maximum winds of up to 185 km / h to category 1, with winds of up to 150 km / hour.

For the moment, the storm has not touched land in the United States and has not caused any deaths or major damage.

The northern regions of the Bahamas archipelago, especially the Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands, where the cyclone hit the weekend with intensity 5 and remained for more than 24 hours in an unusual phenomenon. , generating great destruction.

According to the latest badessment by the Bahamian authorities, 30 people have died on these islands because of Dorian, but this number is expected to increase as emergency teams reach new areas devastated.

UN chief of humanitarian affairs, Mark Lowbad, said last Wednesday that the Bahamas "have never seen anything of this magnitude" in defining the impact of Dorian on the Caribbean country as " huge".