Tropical Storm Ian strengthens as it heads to Cuba, Florida

Tropical Storm Ian strengthens while it heads to Cuba, Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities with every one other accompanied by residents inside Florida were keeping a cautious eye on Tropical Storm Ian while it rumbled into and not here of the Caribbean on Sunday, expected to carry on accompanied by gaining ability with every one other accompanied by become a greatest hurricane inside the coming days on a forecast track in the direction of the state.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a condition of crisis all over Florida with every one other accompanied by urged residents to prepared for a tempest that could lash large swaths of the condition accompanied by heavy rains, high winds with every one other accompanied by rising seas.

"We encourage all Floridians to build their preparations," DeSantis said inside a statement.

President Joe Biden too declared an emergency, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security with every one other accompanied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to coordinate catastrophe reassurance with every one other accompanied by provide assistance to retain protected from danger lives with every one other accompanied by property. The president postponed a scheduled Sept. 27 trip to Florida due to the storm.

The National Hurricane Center said Ian was expected to build strong earlier to moving over western Cuba with every one other accompanied by in the direction of the the occident seaboard of Florida with every one other accompanied by the Florida Panhandle by the centre of the week. The agency advised Floridians to have hurricane plans inside place with every one other accompanied by detector updates of the storm's evolving path.

The center issued an updated advisory at 5 a.m. Sunday, which noted the tropical tempest was forecast to start "rapidly strengthening subsequent today" accompanied by the "risk of significant wind with every one other accompanied by tempest surge impacts increasing for western Cuba."

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Ian was expected to become a hurricane Sunday with every one other accompanied by a greatest hurricane while in a short time while late Monday. The tempest had top sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) on Sunday earlier to noon while it swirled concerning 345 miles (555 kilometers) southeast of Grand Cayman, inside the Cayman Islands.

A hurricane warning remained inside effect for the island with every one other accompanied by hurricane watches were issued for western Cuba.

Cuban condition media said crisis authorities have met to scheme for the storm's coming with every one other accompanied by prepare for evacuations, though none had been ordered while of Sunday. The track forecast by the National Hurricane Center shows a greatest tempest striking the far-western small portion of the island early Tuesday, near to the country's most famed tobacco fields.

John Cangialosi, a older hurricane expert at the Miami-based center, said inside an meeting Sunday that it is not understandable exactly where Ian will hit hardest. Floridians should start preparations, including gathering supplies for potential ability outages, he said.

"It's a firm thing to speak remain tuned, nevertheless that's the just message just now," said Cangialosi. "But for those inside Florida, it's still hour dated to prepare. I'm not telling you to place up your shutters yet or do anything exist fond of that nevertheless it's still hour dated to obtain your supplies."

In Pinellas Park, near Tampa, people were waiting inside dash at a Home Depot when it opened at 6 a.m. Saturday, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Manager Wendy Macrini said the store had sold 600 cases of aqua by early afternoon with every one other accompanied by ran not here of generators.

People too were buying up plywood to shore up their windows: "Better to have it with every one other accompanied by not need it than to need it with every one other accompanied by not have it," Matt Beaver, of Pinellas Park, told the Times.

Elsewhere, strong post-tropical cyclone Fiona crashed ashore Saturday inside Nova Scotia inside the Atlantic Canada region, washing houses into the sea, tearing off rooftops with every one other accompanied by knocking not here ability to additional than 500,000 customers inside set of two provinces.

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Associated Press author Julie Walker contributed to this report from New York.

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The agency said Floridians should have hurricane plans inside place with every one other accompanied by advised residents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents\">monitor updates\u003c/a> of the storm's evolving path.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:404354148709' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='d847a2960c7f0dd6ff616be99c457c36'>Hub peek embed (Storms) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>The center issued an updated advisory at 5 a.m. Sunday, which noted the tropical tempest was forecast to start "rapidly strengthening subsequent today" accompanied by the "risk of significant wind with every one other accompanied by tempest surge impacts increasing for western Cuba."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Ian was expected to become a hurricane Sunday with every one other accompanied by a greatest hurricane while in a short time while late Monday. The tempest had top sustained winds of 50 mph (85 kph) on Sunday earlier to noon while it swirled concerning 345 miles (555 kilometers) southeast of Grand Cayman, inside the Cayman Islands. \u003c/p>\u003cp>A hurricane warning remained inside effect for the island with every one other accompanied by hurricane watches were issued for western Cuba. \u003c/p>\u003cp>John Cangialosi, a older hurricane expert at the Miami-based center, said it wasn't yet understandable exactly where Ian will hit hardest inside Florida. He said the state's residents should start preparing for the storm, including gathering supplies for potential ability outages. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"Too in a short time to speak if it's going to exist a southeast Florida difficulty or a centre Florida difficulty or fair the entire state," he said. "So at this point really the just message for those living inside Florida is that you have to watch forecasts with every one other accompanied by obtain prepared with every one other accompanied by prepare yourself for potential impact from this tropical system."\u003c/p>\u003cp>In Pinellas Park, near Tampa, people were waiting inside dash at a Home Depot when it opened at 6 a.m., the Tampa Bay Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2022/09/24/tropical-storm-ianhurricane-ianflorida-hurricanehurricane-fionaflorida/\">reported\u003c/a>. Manager Wendy Macrini said the store had sold 600 cases of aqua by the early afternoon with every one other accompanied by ran not here of generators.\u003c/p>\u003cp>People too were buying up plywood to place over their windows: "Better to have it with every one other accompanied by not need it than to need it with every one other accompanied by not have it," Matt Beaver, of Pinellas Park, told the Times. \u003c/p>\u003cp>The governor's declaration frees up crisis protective funding with every one other accompanied by activates members of the Florida National Guard, his office said. His order stresses that there is chance for a tempest surge, flooding, dangerous winds with every one other accompanied by other weather conditions all over the state. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Elsewhere, strong \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b\">post-tropical cyclone\u003c/a> Fiona crashed ashore early Saturday inside Nova Scotia inside the Atlantic Canada region. The tempest washed houses into the sea, tore rooftops off others with every one other accompanied by knocked not here ability to the vast majority of set of two Canadian provinces accompanied by additional than 500,000 customers affected at the storm's height.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Fiona had transformed from a hurricane into a post-tropical tempest late Friday, nevertheless it still had hurricane-strength winds with every one other accompanied by brought drenching rains with every one other accompanied by enormous waves. There was no indeed confirmation of fatalities or injuries.\u003c/p>\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\u003cp>Associated Press author Julie Walker contributed to this report from New York. \u003c/p>","alertLinkDateTime":null,"storyLayout":{},"reporters":[],"headlinePlacement":null,"relatedStoryEmbeds":[],"disableNativo":false}]},{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b","shortId":"urn:publicid:ap.org:f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b","allowAd":true,"borderColor":null,"cardTitle":null,"cardHeadline":null,"cardType":"Wire Story","collectionTagObjs":null,"embedCardTitleColor":null,"disclaimerText":null,"dividerColor":null,"expandedStoryCount":null,"headlineWidget":false,"hubPeekLinkText":null,"hubPeekTagId":null,"hubPeekTagName":null,"hubPeekCanonicalName":null,"hubPeekIsPr":null,"minimizedStoryCount":null,"tagObjs":[{"id":"Storms","name":"Storms","canonicalName":"storms","isPr":false},{"id":"Hurricanes","name":"Hurricanes","canonicalName":"hurricanes","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-latinamerica","name":"Latin America","canonicalName":"latin-america","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-canada","name":"Canada","canonicalName":"canada","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-topnews","name":"AP Top News","canonicalName":"ap-top-news","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-usnews","name":"U.S. News","canonicalName":"us-news","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-WorldNews","name":"World News","canonicalName":"world-news","isPr":false},{"id":"apf-caribbean","name":"Caribbean","canonicalName":"caribbean","isPr":false},{"id":"Tropicalcyclones","name":"Tropical cyclones","canonicalName":"tropical-cyclones","isPr":false},{"id":"Tropicalstorms","name":"Tropical storms","canonicalName":"tropical-storms","isPr":false},{"id":"Newfoundland","name":"Newfoundland","canonicalName":"newfoundland","isPr":false},{"id":"Climateandenvironment","name":"Climate with every one other accompanied by environment","canonicalName":"climate-and-environment","isPr":false}],"textColor":null,"layoutType":null,"customLayoutType":null,"styleName":null,"endDateTime":null,"notificationUrl":null,"notificationText":null,"notificationTitle":null,"notificationType":null,"notificationUpdated":null,"contents":[{"id":"urn:publicid:ap.org:f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b","shortId":"f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b","bylines":"By ROB GILLIES","canonicalUrl":"storms-hurricanes-nova-scotia-tropical-cyclones","contentType":"text","disableConnatix":false,"downloadSettings":{},"embedCaption":null,"embedHeight":null,"embedHTML":null,"embedLinkURL":null,"firstWords":"\u003cp>TORONTO (AP) — Fiona washed houses into the sea, tore the roofs off others with every one other accompanied by knocked not here ability to the vast majority of set of two Canadian provinces while it made landfall earlier to dawn Saturday while a big, strong post-tropical cyclone.\u003c/p>","hasTextOverlay":false,"headline":"Fiona sweeps away houses, knocks not here ability inside eastern Canada","description":null,"interactiveLinkUrl":null,"interactiveLinkUrlText":null,"language":"en","leadPhotoId":"26632683377b4423878e469332dc5b11","leadVideoId":null,"localLinkUrl":"https://apnews.com/f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b","localMemberName":null,"media":[{"id":"26632683377b4423878e469332dc5b11","type":"Photo","caption":"\u003cp>Fallen trees relax opposed to a house inside Sydney, N.S. while pole tropical tempest Fiona continues to batter the Maritimes on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. Strong rains with every one other accompanied by winds lashed the Atlantic Canada neighbourhood while Fiona closed inside early Saturday while a big, strong post-tropical cyclone, with every one other accompanied by Canadian forecasters warned it could exist one of the most severe storms inside the country's history.(Vaughan Merchant /The Canadian Press via AP)\u003c/p>","order":12,"imageMimeType":"image/jpeg","imageFileExtension":".jpeg","imageRenderedSizes":[2000,1000,800,600,400,200],"aspectRatio":1.63800163800164,"gcsBaseUrl":"https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/26632683377b4423878e469332dc5b11/","embedCaption":null,"uploaded":true,"flattenedCaption":"Fallen trees relax opposed to a house inside Sydney, N.S. while pole tropical tempest Fiona continues to batter the Maritimes on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. 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There was no indeed confirmation of fatalities or injuries. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Ocean waves pounded the town of Channel-Port Aux Basques on the southern seaboard of Newfoundland, where entire structures were washed into the sea. Mayor Brian Button said Saturday over communal media that people were actuality evacuated to high ground while winds knocked down ability lines.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"I'm seeing homes inside the ocean. I'm seeing rubble floating all over the place. It's complete with every one other accompanied by utter destruction. There's an apartment that is gone,\" René J. Roy, a resident of Channel-Port Aux Basques with every one other accompanied by leader editor at Wreckhouse Press, said inside a phone interview. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Roy estimated in the centre of eight to 12 houses with every one other accompanied by buildings have washed into the sea. "It's completely terrifying,\" he said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Jolene Garland, a spokeswoman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police inside Newfoundland with every one other accompanied by Labrador, said a woman was protected from danger with every one other accompanied by inside \"good health\" following actuality "tossed into the aqua while her place of residence collapsed" inside the Channel-Port Aux Basques area. Garland said that an individual who strength have been swept away was still reported while lost with every one other accompanied by that high winds were preventing an aerial search.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv id='afs:Card:404354148709' class='hub-peek-embed' content-id='f0f5833f97f7f413c83a09ab546a372b'>Hub peek embed (Storms) - Compressed layout (automatic embed) \u003c/div>\u003cp>The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the town of 4,000 people was inside a condition of crisis while authorities dealt accompanied by multiple electrical fires with every one other accompanied by residential flooding. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau canceled his trip to Japan for the burial for assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Trudeau said the confederate management would deploy the Canadian Armed Forces to assist. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We are seeing devastating images coming not here of Port aux Basques. PEI (Prince Edward Island) has experienced tempest harm exist fond of they've never seen. Cape Breton is actuality hit hard, too," Trudeau said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"Canadians are intelligent of all those affected by Hurricane Fiona, which is having devastating effects inside the Atlantic provinces with every one other accompanied by eastern Quebec, mainly inside the Magdalen Islands. There are people who see their houses destroyed, people who are extremely worried — we will exist there for you."\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said the roof of an apartment building collapsed with every one other accompanied by they moved 100 people to an evacuation center. He said no indeed one was solemnly exist sore or killed. Provincial officials said there are other apartment buildings that are too significantly damaged. Halifax has concerning 160 people displaced from set of two apartments, officials said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>More than 415,000 Nova Scotia Power customers — concerning 80% of the province of almost 1 million — were affected by outages Saturday morning. Over 82,000 customers inside the province of Prince Edward Island, concerning 95%, were too lacking power, while NB Power inside New Brunswick reported 44,329 were lacking electricity.\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>The Canadian Hurricane Centre tweeted early Saturday that Fiona had the lowest pressure at some time recorded for a tempest making landfall inside Canada. Forecasters had warned it could exist the one of the most strong storms to hit the country. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We're getting additional severe storms additional frequently," Trudeau said Saturday.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He said additional resilient infrastructure is needed to exist intelligent withstand extreme weather events, saying a one inside a 100 year tempest strength start to hit every one few years since of climate change.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Things are only getting worse," Trudeau said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>A condition of local crisis was too declared by the mayor with every one other accompanied by council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"There are homes that have been significantly damaged due to downed trees, large elderly trees falling down with every one other accompanied by causing significant damage. We're too seeing houses that their roofs have completely torn off, windows breaking in. There is a enormous amount of debris inside the roadways,\" Amanda McDougall, mayor of Cape Breton Regional Municipality, told The Associated Press\u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>"There is a a large amount of harm to belongings with every one other accompanied by structures nevertheless no indeed injuries to people while of this point. Again we're still inside the midst of this," she said. "It's still terrifying. I'm fair sitting here inside my living space with every one other accompanied by it feels exist fond of the patio doors are going to shatter inside accompanied by those large gusts."\u003c/p>\u003cp>Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said roads were washed out, including his own, with every one other accompanied by said an "incredible" amount of trees were down.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"It is attractive devastating. The sad the real world is the people who need details are unable to hear it. Their phones are not working, they don't have ability or access to the internet," Houston said. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Peter Gregg, President with every one other accompanied by CEO of Nova Scotia Power, said unprecedented summit winds caused severe damage. "In numerous areas, weather conditions are still excessively dangerous for our crews to obtain up inside our bucket trucks," Gregg said. He said concerning 380,000 customers carry on accompanied by to exist lacking ability while of Saturday afternoon. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King said they had no indeed reports of some significant injuries or deaths. But he said few communities were spared damage, accompanied by the devastation looking to exist on the far side of anything they had seen formerly inside the province. He said over 95% of islanders remained lacking power. \u003c/p>\u003cdiv class=\"ad-placeholder\" data='autoembed'>\u003c/div>\u003cp>Federal Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said there was extremely large harm at the airfield inside Sydney, Nova Scotia. He said other airports too were hit, nevertheless that harm at the Halifax facility, Nova Scotia's largest airport, was minor. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Fiona had weakened to tropical tempest ability late Saturday afternoon while it moved across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In its final report on Fiona, the U.S. hurricane center said it had greatest sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph). It was centered concerning 80 miles (130 kilomters) northwest of Port aux Basques with every one other accompanied by moving northeast at 8 mph (13 kph). \u003c/p>\u003cp>Tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 550 miles (890 kilometers).\u003c/p>\u003cp>Hurricanes inside Canada are somewhat rare, inside small portion since on one occasion the storms stretch not here colder waters, they mislay their main spring of energy. But post-tropical cyclones still tin have hurricane-strength winds, although they have a chilly centre with every one other accompanied by no indeed perceptible eye. They too regularly mislay their symmetric form with every one other accompanied by additional look like a comma. \u003c/p>\u003cp>In Sydney, Nova Scotia, the largest city inside Cape Breton, concerning 20 people took refuge at the Centre 200 sports with every one other accompanied by entertainment facility, said Christina Lamey, a spokeswoman for the region. Lamey said there were hundreds of people displaced inside the province. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Arlene with every one other accompanied by Robert Grafilo fled to Centre 200 accompanied by their children, ages 3 with every one other accompanied by 10, following a enormous saplingconifer fell on their duplex apartment.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"We were trapped with every one other accompanied by we couldn't not shut the doors with every one other accompanied by the windows, so that's when we decided to call 911," Arlene Grafilo said. She said firefighters eventually rescued them.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Peter MacKay, a former overseas minister with every one other accompanied by protection minister who lives inside Nova Scotia, said he with every one other accompanied by his family had a lengthy darkness with every one other accompanied by said the winds were still raging inside the afternoon. \u003c/p>\u003cp>"We had place each item we could not here of harm's way, nevertheless the house got hammered attractive hard. Lost lots of shingles, heavy aqua harm inside ceilings, walls, our deck is destroyed. A garage that I was building blew away," MacKay said inside an email to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\u003cp>"Never seen anything exist fond of it. Lived into and not here of some insane weather," he added.\u003c/p>\u003cp>He called the images from Newfoundland heartbreaking. \u003c/p>\u003cp>Fiona so a lengthy way has been blamed for at least five deaths — set of two inside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/floods-storms-hurricanes-bermuda-puerto-rico-e4066589502b4b2a0a441308216c7ed4\">Puerto Rico\u003c/a>, set of two inside the Dominican Republic with every one other accompanied by one inside the French island of Guadeloupe.\u003c/p>\u003cp>In the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Ian was predicted to fast build strong inside the coming days. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could go over western Cuba with every one other accompanied by in the direction of the the occident seaboard of Florida or the Florida Panhandle by the centre of following week.\u003c/p>\u003cp>Ian was centered concerning 685 miles (1,105 kilometers) southeast of the western point of Cuba, late Saturday. 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