Hurricane Maria intensifies to Category Two storm
Hurricane Maria strengthens to a Category Two storm with winds of 110 miles (175 kilometers) per hour as it menaced Caribbean islands already hard-hit by megastorm Irma.
The US National Hurricane Center expects Maria to grow into a “major hurricane” — a Category Three — later today with the French territory of Guadeloupe, the staging area for relief operations for several islands battered by Irma, in the crosshairs.
Tropical weather systems Hurricane Norma, left, on the Pacific Ocean side of Mexico; Jose, center, east of Florida; Tropical Depression 15, second from right, north of South America, and Tropical Storm Lee, right, north of eastern Brazil, on September 16, 2017. (NOAA-NASA GOES Project via AP)
Warnings were also triggered for Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis and the British island of Montserrat.
— AFP
