Fiona was centered 65 miles southeast of Ponce, Puerto Rico, early Sunday. It had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.
Tropical Storm Fiona is forecast to become a hurricane on Sunday before passing near or over Puerto Rico this afternoon. Fiona could bring deadly flash flooding and mudslides to the island. The long-range path keeps Fiona away from the U.S. East Coast.HAVANA — Puerto Ricans braced for severe wind and rain as Tropical Storm Fiona bore down amid expectations it would grow into a hurricane before striking the U.S. territory’s southern coast on Sunday.
Fiona was centered 65 miles southeast of Ponce, Puerto Rico, early Sunday. It had maximum sustained winds of 70 mph and was moving west-northwest at 8 mph . Anxiety ran high across the island with Fiona due just two days before the anniversary of Hurricane Maria, a devastating Category 4 storm that hit on Sept. 20, 2017, destroying the island’s power grid and causing nearly 3,000 deaths.
Puerto Rico’s power grid was razed by Hurricane Maria and remains frail, with reconstruction starting only recently. Outages are a daily occurrence. A man stands in front of a beach before the arrival of Tropical Storm Fiona in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. Fiona was expected to become a hurricane as it neared Puerto Rico on Saturday, threatening to dump up to 20 inches of rain as people braced for potential landslides, severe flooding and power outages. Fiona was predicted to drop 12 to 16 inches of rain over eastern and southern Puerto Rico, with as much as 25 inches in isolated spots.
A hurricane warning was posted for the Dominican Republic’s eastern coast from Cabo Caucedo to Cabo Frances Viejo.
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