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The National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded Hurricane Dorian to a “catastrophic†Category Five, the highest on its five-point scale, as the storm readies to batter the Bahamas with life-threatening surges of water and devastating winds.
The forecast for Florida improved in the past day even as the situation for North Carolina is beginning to look grim.
Yet the slow-moving, massive storm could yet threaten the Sunshine State, as looked likely a few days ago. Dorian may get a little closer to Florida, said Ryan Truchelut, president of Weather Tiger in Tallahassee, Florida.
The official hurricane centre track has Dorian lingering over the Grand Bahama Island through Tuesday. The high pressure ridge models thought would weaken allowing Dorian to turn north is stronger, Truchelut said. A NOAA aircraft was expected to sample the ridge on Sunday.