Hurricane Hanna, first of the 2020 Atlantic season, makes landfall in Texas
morphed into a hurricane on Saturday morning, bringing the threat of a dangerous storm surge before weakening quickly inland, forecasters said.As of 4 p.m. CDT Saturday, the storm was moving west-southwest at 8 mph and producing up to 90 mph sustained winds.Local officials already battling the growing coronavirus threat in the state say they are prepared for whatever the storm may deliver.
"This rain may result in life-threatening flash flooding, rapid rises on small streams, and isolated minor to moderate river flooding," the NHC warned. as the earliest eighth Atlantic named storm; The previous record was Harvey on Aug. 3, 2005, Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach tweeted.Though still hundreds of miles from Hawaii, the state was bracing for the arrival of Hurricane Douglas, which was expected to move across the island chain on Sunday.At 10 a.m. CDT Saturday, Hurricane Douglas was 440 miles east of Hilo and packing maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.
Tropical Storm Gonzalo weakened as it moved toward the Windward Islands of the Caribbean on Saturday, losing prospects of becoming the Atlantic's first hurricane of the season, the hurricane center said.
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