Hurricane Arthur is the type of storm hurricane forecasters dread — it is intensifying, gaining speed and tracking much closer to land than originally anticipated
Rather than grazing the Outer Banks of North Carolina as a strong tropical storm or minimal Category 1 hurricane, it is likely to make landfall as a Category 2 — or possibly even Category 3 — storm, with maximum sustained winds of around 100 miles per hour. This means there will be much stronger winds, higher waves, and more damaging storm surge flooding than many emergency managers and homeowners planned for when they made their decisions of whether or not to board up and evacuate Read more...
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