LATEST: Hurricane Dorian forecast and updates • Expected to strengthen to Cat. 3 later Friday • Forecast to make landfall in Florida as Cat. 4 with 140 mph winds • Up to 18 inches of rain expected in areas
was forecast to become an"extremely dangerous major hurricane" on Friday as it churned on its course to the Bahamas and southeastern U.S. over the next several days, according to the National Hurricane Center.
As of midmorning Friday, Dorian was about 480 miles east of the northwestern Bahamas and was expected to move over the Atlantic north of the southeastern and central Bahamas on Friday. It was then expected to move near or over parts of the northwestern Bahamas on Sunday and be near the Florida peninsula late Monday, the center said.
The storm was expected to produce 6 to 12 inches of rain, with isolated areas receiving as 18 inches in the northwestern Bahamas and coastal southeast United States."It's going to be this big, bad, intense storm — wherever it hits, it's going to do catastrophic wind damage," said Bill Karins, a meteorologist for NBC News.
"A prolonged period of storm surge, high winds and rainfall is likely in portions of Florida into next week, including the possibility of hurricane-force winds over inland portions of the Florida peninsula," the center said.
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