Hanna roared ashore as Texas is going through an enormous surge in coronavirus infections.
Houston:
Hanna, the primary Atlantic hurricane of 2020, slammed into the coast of coronavirus-hit Texas on Saturday, bringing heavy rain, storm surge and probably life-threatening flash flooding.
The Category 1 storm packed winds of round 90 miles (145 kilometers) per hour because it got here ashore at Padre Island at 5 pm (2200 GMT), the US National Hurricane Center stated.
“Hanna is expected to produce heavy rains across portions of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. These rains will result in life-threatening flash flooding,” and a few river flooding, the meteorologists stated.
“Life-threatening storm surge will continue along portions of the Texas coast,” it stated, with the surge probably reaching 6 toes (1.eight meters) in some areas.
Hanna might drop 18 inches (45 centimeters) of rain by way of Monday on south Texas and the Mexican states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and northern Tamaulipas.
Hanna roared ashore as Texas is going through an enormous surge in coronavirus infections, with officers instituting a state-wide masks mandate to attempt to curb the unfold of the illness.
Hanna was about 70 miles south of Corpus Christi, Texas, when it made landfall. The metropolis of 325,000, house to one of many largest virus outbreaks in Texas, had closed libraries and museums as residents braced for the storm, native media reported.
The US is the hardest-hit nation within the coronavirus pandemic, with some 4.2 million circumstances, and authorities should work out how you can safely shelter residents pressured out of their houses by future hurricanes this season.
Hanna was forecast to maneuver inland over south Texas on Saturday night time, and into northeastern Mexico on Sunday.
Two different storm methods have been churning Saturday: Pacific Hurricane Douglas, bearing down on the Hawaiian islands, and Tropical Storm Gonzalo within the Atlantic, close to the Windward Islands.
Douglas — at one level a robust Category Four hurricane — has weakened to a Category 1 storm with wind speeds of 90 miles per hour.
The NHC stated Saturday the storm “will be near the main Hawaiian Islands late tonight and will move over parts of the state Sunday and Monday,” bringing excessive winds, heavy surf, and rainfall of as much as 10 inches.
A hurricane warning was in impact in Oahu.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s authorities warned of heavy rains and gusting winds as Gonzalo moved west throughout the Caribbean.
Big waves have already began to pound the coast in japanese Venezuela and energy was knocked in some areas Saturday, Venezuelan media reported.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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