Hurricane Maria Research Paper

Hurricane Maria is Attacking North Carolina
Angelane Grace Sarona HUMSS 11.A

The East Coast is receiving high winds and tremendous surf from Hurricane Maria. Maria will weaken to a tropical storm by Tuesday night, according to the National Hurricane Center. It is expected that the dangerous core of the storm will move southeast coast of the United States during the following days. Image from weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/

Hurricane Maria caused devastation in the Caribbean. It results to a big lost in the area. The Hurricane killed at least 10 people at Puerto Rico according to the report of Theresa Waldrop of CNN. Puerto Rico officials describe 'apocalyptic' conditions of the said Hurricane. And after the storm it destroy the
Island of Dominica and it killed at least 15 people there.It also hammered the Dominican Republic, the US Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos, a British overseas territory.

Beginning on Tuesday Hurricane Maria will brush North Carolina with high wind, bands of rain and coastal flooding can be expected as it will be approaching. Tropical storm warnings and storm surge watches are in effect for portions of the North Carolina coast."High surf and rip currents will persist the next few days as far north as southeast New England.

Hurricane Maria, while not a landfall threat, will still brush parts of the North Carolina coast and the Virginia Tidewater with coastal flooding, winds and rain as large swells pound the coast with high surf and rip currents as far north as southeast New England," from the Weather.com Digital Meteorologists.The center of Hurricane Maria is now just under 250 miles southeast of Hatteras, North Carolina, and is moving north at 5 to 10 mph.Data from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft suggest that maximum sustained winds are 80 mph.
Despite recent weakening, Maria has a large wind field, with tropical-storm-force winds extending up to 205 miles from Maria's center of
circulation.
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Current Storm Status: The highest cloud tops, corresponding to the most vigorous convection, are shown in the brightest red colors. Clustering, deep convection around the center is a sign of a healthy tropical.

A storm surge watch remains in effect for portions of the North Carolina coast between Cape Lookout and Duck.
A peak of 2 to 4 feet of storm-surge inundation above ground level is expected in this area, including on the sound side of the Outer Banks.

A tropical storm warning was issued Monday afternoon from the far northern Outer Banks north of Duck to the North Carolina/Virginia border. The tropical storm warning has also been extended southward to Bogue Inlet, North Carolina, and the tropical storm watch has been discontinued west of Bogue Inlet.

“In summary, a tropical storm warning is now in effect from Bogue Inlet, North Carolina, northward to the North Carolina/Virginia border. This includes the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds. A tropical storm warning means tropical storm conditions are expected in the warning area within 36 hours. As the storm tracks into the North Atlantic at the end of September, some of Maria’s rain and wind could brush part of Atlantic Canada. At the very least, seas near the coast and offshore will become dangerous. A lull in tropical activity will follow Maria, but there will likely be more tropical threats heading into October,” according to the report by weather.com Digital Meteorologists on September 25, 2017 10:45 PM
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