While Dorian slowly grew in size,
becoming a Category 2 storm late Thursday over the warm waters of the Atlantic,
interests in the Bahamas and U.S. continued to intensify preparations ahead of
the storm's expected landfall as a major hurricane as forecasters warned of
potentially devastating winds, storm surge and heavy rain. The National
Hurricane Center said during its 8 a.m. Friday advisory that Dorian's maximum
sustained winds increased to 110 mph. As Dorian, the second hurricane of the
Atlantic season, tracks north of the Bahamas later this week, it is expected to
reach Category 4 hurricane strength before approaching the southeastern United
States coast. "With Dorian forecast to pass over the extremely warm water
of the Gulf Stream, where cooled, up welled water is rapidly replaced by more
warm water, you have to be concerned that a Category 5 storm is on the table
before reaching the U.S. coast," Sosnowski said. The International Space
Station flew over Dorian on Thursday afternoon and caught video of the storm as
it swirled northwest of Puerto Rico. AccuWeather meteorologists are forecasting
Dorian to intensify into a major hurricane before making landfall as a Category
4 hurricane.
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