Tuesday 12 September 2017

Irma is now a tropical depression

Once a powerful hurricane, Irma is now officially a tropical depression.

In what it said was its last advisory on the storm, the National Hurricane Center announced the downgrade at 11 p.m. East Coast time. The storm was centered five miles south of Columbus, Ga., with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph, and moving northwest at 15 mph.

"All storm surge warnings and tropical storm warnings have been discontinued," the advisory said.


Even so, the storm was continuing to assert its presence, with 2 to 5 inches of rain -- and as much as 8 inches in isolated pockets -- expected through Wednesday across South Carolina and northern portions of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi into Tennessee and North Carolina.

(Source: LA Times)

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