THE HURRICANE “DEAN”.
Hurricane Dean could become a Category Five hurricane later today before hitting Mexico, the US National Hurricane Centre said on Monday. The hurricane is expected to hit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula after having battered Jamaica's southern coast during a Caribbean rampage that has killed at least nine people.
Dean is currently an "extremely dangerous" Category Four hurricane, the second highest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
According to the hurricane centre, Dean is travelling at 33 kilometres per hour and carrying sustained winds of 240 km/h. The storm has passed more than 160 km to the south of the Cayman Islands – a British territory in the western Caribbean.
Jamaican authorities said 300,000 people were displaced by the storm, and at least one man was missing. Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has declared a month-long state of emergency.
Hurricane Dean could become a Category Five hurricane later today before hitting Mexico, the US National Hurricane Centre said on Monday. The hurricane is expected to hit Mexico's Yucatan peninsula after having battered Jamaica's southern coast during a Caribbean rampage that has killed at least nine people.
Dean is currently an "extremely dangerous" Category Four hurricane, the second highest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.
According to the hurricane centre, Dean is travelling at 33 kilometres per hour and carrying sustained winds of 240 km/h. The storm has passed more than 160 km to the south of the Cayman Islands – a British territory in the western Caribbean.
Jamaican authorities said 300,000 people were displaced by the storm, and at least one man was missing. Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has declared a month-long state of emergency.
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