A projection of possible storm winds.
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Some parts of the southeast of the United States began to stop for the impacts of a potential tropical storm, only a year after Hurricane Helene has torn the region leaving losses and calamity in its wake.
Southern Carolina Governor Henry McMaster put residents under the state of emergency in preparation for Tropical Depression 9, which should get down to the start of next week.
“Although the arrival, speed and intensity of the storm remain difficult to predict, we know that this will bring an important wind, strong precipitation and floods throughout the state of South Carolina,” said McMaster in a press release.
“We have already seen it. Now is the time to start paying attention to forecasts, updates and alerts from official sources and starting to make preparations,” he said.
The storm system currently hangs over certain parts of the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), and should start to affect the east of Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas and Hispaniola – which includes the Dominican Republic and Haiti – throughout the weekend because it is intensifying in a tropical storm.
A graphus illustrates the estimated time of the effects of the storm in the region.
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As he landed in the United States, the agency warned, it could have strengthened considerably.
“There is a significant threat of strong precipitation at the beginning of next week of coastal Georgia through the Carolines and in the southern Mid-Atlantic states, which could cause light, urban and river floods,” NHC said in an update on Saturday morning.
The storm could be “at the intensity or near the hurricane when it approaches the Southeast,” said the agency, adding that it was too early to specify where it would land and how much.
So far, the Southeast of the United States has been spared the weight of the Atlantic’s Hurricane season of the year.
The region had been beaten several times by years of seasons of intense storms, notably the devastating hurricane last year, which was the second severe hurricane of the year and was put to entire cities when it torn the coast.
Hurricaneness Gabrielle and Humberto have formed on the ocean but are not considered threats to the United States.
Hurricane Humberto is not considered a threat to the United States for the moment.
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Hurricane has become more severe over the years, because climate change makes storms stronger and more frequent. The warmer ocean temperatures reproduce larger and more intense storms, which can in turn cause more serious floods, infrastructure damage and loss of life.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which saved New Orleans and a large part of the Gulf region, led to a push to better understand how and why these storms occur, and what agencies could do to better prepare.
