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Hurricane Dorian continues to strengthen with sustained maximum winds of 175 km / h and could become a major category cyclone as it slowly heads to Florida, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported. United States.

NHC warned today that after crossing Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Dorian could arrive in Florida on Monday, becoming an "extremely dangerous" category 4 phenomenon on the Saffir-Simpson scale (out of a maximum of 5), that is, maximum sustained winds of 225 km / h.

In his 8:00 am local time bulletin, the agency said Dorian was starting to move more slowly, which allowed him to gather more forces and in a northwesterly direction. "Dorian is expected to become a major hurricane later on Friday night and remain an extremely dangerous hurricane this weekend," said NHC.

The federal agency noted that the hurricane was about 410 km east-northeast of southeastern Bahamas and about 815 km east of northwestern Florida, which reported state of emergency, was preparing for a phenomenon known as "King Tide", which has nothing to do with the hurricane but will coincide with the arrival cyclone.

Similarly, rainfall is estimated to be as high as 30 centimeters in the Bahamas and parts of the southeastern United States, and up to 38 centimeters in some areas. "This rain could cause sudden floods threatening human lives," said the federal agency.

Dorian crossed Puerto Rico with category 1, causing the death of an 80-year-old man who had fallen from a ladder while he was preparing his home for the storm and had been injured at the head, police sources said.

Away from the hurricane season, which began last June, four more tropical storms were recorded: Chantal, Andrea, Erin and Barry, who became a hurricane in July shortly before landing in Louisiana, where he left material losses, but no direct fatality.