Hurricane Dorian has been reinforced, he is already Category 4 and threatens Florida

The two nuclear power plants in Florida are preparing to shut down.

The powerful cyclone moves slowly from west to northwest at 17 km / h, allowing it to better organize and gain power.

The new forecasts indicate that Dorian will turn northwest in the coming days, which would lead to the hurricane "near the east coast of Florida instead of inland"However, NHC meteorologists warn of possible "additional left or right adjustments", depending on the different projection models.

This hurricane is still "extremely dangerous" and still constitutes a "significant threat" north of the Bahamas and on the east coast of Florida, warns the NHC, which yesterday sent a plane "in search of a hurricane" confirming that Dorian is a hurricane of " large category ", over 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

In the meantime, they plan an additional reinforcement of this cyclone whose winds with hurricane force, that is to say more than 119 km / h, extend up to 45 km from his eye.

This will cause a "life threatening" storm surge, which will raise sea level up to 5 meters on the northwestern coast of the Bahamas and generate "devastating" waves.

Regarding rainfall, Dorian is expected to produce significant rainfall accumulations from this weekend and until the middle of next week, especially in northwestern Bahamas and the southern coastal regions. is from the United States, where it could reach 45 centimeters. .

Once Florida became a major cyclone, the NHC's cone of trajectory indicates that Dorian could head north to the state, where he could lose strength but without losing the category of hurricanes.