HAVANA: Hurricane Ian strengthened into a Category 3 storm on Tuesday (Sep 27), the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, as Cuba and Florida - both in the storm's likely path - ramped up preparations to deal with high winds and potential flooding. About 50,000 people in Cuba's w
HAVANA: Hurricane Ian strengthened into a Category 3 storm on Tuesday , the United States National Hurricane Center said, as Cuba and Florida - both in the storm's likely path - ramped up preparations to deal with high winds and potential flooding.
"The maximum winds are now estimated to be 115kmh with higher gusts," it said, making Ian a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale.In Florida, the city of Tampa was under a hurricane watch, and Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency in all 67 counties as officials scrambled to prepare for the storm's forecast landing on Wednesday or Thursday.
NASA said it was rolling back its massive Moon rocket into its storage hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to the hurricane.When it arrived in eastern Canada, the storm packed intense winds of 129kmh, bringing torrential rain and waves of up to 12m.Three people are believed to have died when Fiona barreled into Canada's Atlantic provinces as a post-tropical cyclone early Saturday.