Where Is Hurricane Maria Going And When Will It Hit?
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Date: 20/09/2017

Where Is Hurricane Maria Going And When Will It Hit?


Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico Wednesday morning as a Category 4 storm. Maria hit near Yabucoa, bringing winds of up to 155 mph, according to AccuWeather.

The storm was expected to sweep over Puerto Rico in the coming hours, moving northwest. Maria would likely skirt by the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic Wednesday night. The storm had the potential to directly hit Turks and Caicos as early as Friday.

“Following a direct hit on Puerto Rico, Maria is likely to remain a dangerous hurricane as it moves northwestward into Friday,” said AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski.
Hurricane Maria continued moving west-northwest toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Tuesday afternoon as a “potentially catastrophic” storm, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was moving at about nine mph and packed with it winds of 160 mph. 

“This is going to impact all of Puerto Rico with a force and violence that we haven’t seen for several generations,” Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello told the Associated Press. “We’re going to lose a lot of infrastructure in Puerto Rico. We’re going to have to rebuild.”


Hurricane Maria made landfall on Dominica Monday night as a Category 4 storm. The hurricane intensified Tuesday morning after hitting the island and was expected to head toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, areas that were already hit earlier this month by Hurricane Irma.

Maria once again strengthened back to a Category 5 storm Tuesday morning and remained about 170 miles southeast of St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

Maria could strike the Virgin Islands and Puerto as a “potentially catastrophic” storm within 24 hours, according to the Weather Channel. The National Weather Service’s office in San Juan, Puerto Rico issued a warning for “catastrophic damage” and “devastating to catastrophic flooding” Tuesday morning.

Hurricane Maria slammed into the US Virgin Islands Tuesday, lashing the archipelago with rain as Puerto Rico braced for the Category Five storm's expected landfall on Wednesday.

On St John Island, which was also battered by Hurricane Irma two weeks ago, locals reported seeing trees dramatically swaying in swirling winds, with rain pouring "sideways."
Judi Buckley, former senator for St Croix Island, traveled to St John from her South Carolina home to help with the Irma relief effort—only to get caught up in Maria.
"Rain is coming through sideways and the trees are swaying," she told AFP.
"We have become the Irma relief hub and our brothers and sisters across the pond can't afford for us to be crippled," she said, referring to those on St Croix.
Maria's 160 mile (255 kilometer) per hour winds had already roared into the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica Tuesday, with official communications to the island completely cut off in the wake of the storm.
"We have lost all what money can buy and replace," Dominica's premier Roosevelt Skerrit posted on Facebook.
But amateur radio operators on the island, home to 72,000 people, have been able to get word out about Maria's impact—with some reporting downed trees and roofs of homes blown off.
Both a team of Trinidian authorities and a Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency team had to abort rescue and rehabilitation operations to Dominica due to continued intense winds. Both teams hoped to fly out Wednesday instead.