Dorian a sign of the future of hurricanes
Storms are moving more slowly and intensifying more quickly
09 September 2019 - 17:33
New York/Boston — Dorian was not the deadliest or costliest hurricane to roam the Atlantic, but the two days it was stalled over the Bahamas, devastating the island nation, made it unique.
“There has never been anything like it,” Ryan Truchelut, chief meteorologist at WeatherTiger in Tallahassee, Florida, said in an interview. “We’ve never seen a category 5 storm stall like that over one point for 36 hours. The energy it unleashed in such a small area has never happened before in the Atlantic.”..
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