Hurricane Dorian is weakened in category 1, but left a disturbing balance in the Bahamas: 30 dead

Bahamas Hurricane Dorian

According to the latest NHC bulletin, Dorian's eye was located 70 kilometers east-northeast of Wilmington and 85 kilometers southwest of Watch Cape, both in North Carolina, while moving north-east at 24 kilometers per hour.

The agency warned that the hurricane was currently sweeping the coast of North Carolina and that tropical storm conditions are rapidly expanding to the north.

It is still expected that Dorian could touch the land in the next hours on the coast North Carolina before heading to the Atlantic to New England and Nova Scotia.

In the last hours, Dorian moved from category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity with maximum winds reaching 185 km / h at category 1, with winds of up to 150 kilometers per hour.

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

It is in the northern islands of the Bahamas archipelago, especially in the islands Abaco and Grand Bahama, on which the cyclone hit the weekend with an intensity of 5 and remained for more than 24 hours in an unusual phenomenon, generating great destruction.

According to the last balance sheet of the Bahamian authorities, 30 people died in these islands because of Dorian, although The code is expected to increase as emergency teams reach new areas devastated.

The humanitarian chief of the UN, Mark LowbadLast Wednesday, he said the Bahamas "have never seen anything of this magnitude" to define Dorian's impact on the Caribbean country as "huge."