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11 Sep 2018 / United States East Coast

Hurricane Florence to make landfall later this week

The U.S. East Coast is preparing for the landfall of a category 4 hurricane.

Hurricane Florence, currently located in the Atlantic Ocean near 2454N/05854W, has its course set on the U.S. East coast. Landfall is expected on late 13th or early 14th (UTC time) somewhere between Savannah and Cape Hatteras as a Category 4 hurricane.

There is risk of life-threatening impacts from hurricane Florence in the form of storm surges at the coasts, heavy rainfall and damaging hurricane force winds. Hence there is also risk of multiple port closures in the area with delays for voyages passing close to the coast through the 13th.

(For regular global weather routing alerts, contact GAC SMHI Weather Solutions at [email protected])

Source: Notice from the MetOps Team at GAC SMHI Weatherrouting dated 11 September 2018

If quoting any content from Hot Port News, please cite GAC Hot Port News as the source.

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