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(Washington) Tropical Storm Isaias approached the coast of Florida on Sunday, with its procession of heavy rain and high winds, but is not expected to regain hurricane status before making landfall.
Posted on August 2 2020 at 751 Updated to 15 h 15
France Media Agency
Isaias was blowing winds of 98 km / h Sunday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.
However, the storm did not regain effect in contact with the warm waters of the Florida Strait, the NHC added.
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The time remained to be vigilant in this South American state, whose emergency services are already under tension because of an outbreak of cases novel coronavirus.
“Fluctuations in its strength” are possible over the next two days, the NHC said, but it will not become a hurricane again.
At the beginning of the afternoon, the storm was at 72 km from Vero Beach and at 105 km from Cape Canaveral Space Center and was moving northwest about 15 km / h .
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Authorities have declared a state of emergency for East Coast counties, from Miami-Dade to Nassau, which authorizes release of federal funds and many residents have taken precautionary measures, including barricading shop windows with wooden panels.
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Chris Nagiewicz watches his wife Mary install protective shutters on the windows of their home in Briny Breezes, Florida.
The Miami-based NHC clarified that Isaias “should approach the east coast of Florida on Sunday evening”, before returning Monday and Tuesday to the Atlantic.
For its part, NASA closely followed the storm, which was likely to disrupt the return to Earth of SpaceX's manned capsule, after two months mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Crew Dragon, which carries two astronauts, landed safely in the calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Isaias fell from Thursday in the US territory of Puerto Rico, where the body of a woman from 59 years has been discovered Saturday in a vehicle swept away by the waters.
He also caused a lot of damage in the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.
