Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy is roaring northeastward on an offshore track parallel to the Southeast coast off the Carolinas.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sandy will continue moving parallel to the coast most of the day and approach the coast of the mid-Atlantic states by Monday night.
At 5 a.m. ET Sunday, it was centered about 400 kilometres south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. The vast storm system had 120 km/h sustained winds. Little change in strength in the large storm is expected while it remains offshore.
Forecasters say tropical storm conditions are spreading over North Carolina's coastline and gale-force winds should begin being felt along portions of the mid-Atlantic coast later Sunday with higher winds likely after that.
As the storm heads inland and weakens, southern and eastern Ontario could see between 50 and 100 millimetres of rain late Monday and early Tuesday. A wet weather system is stalled out in the region, and this system is expected to merge with the remnants of the storm inching north and then northwest from the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.
Bob Robichaud of the Canadian Hurricane Centre says wind speeds in affected areas of Canada could average 80 km/h by Monday evening. In southwest Nova Scotia, winds could reach 90 to 100 km/h.
The White House says President Barack Obama is cancelling campaign appearances in Northern Virginia on Monday and Colorado on Tuesday so he can monitor Hurricane Sandy. The storm is currently forecast to make landfall along the Eastern seaboard at that time.
Obama is still scheduled to make campaign visits to Orlando, Fla., and Youngstown, Ohio Monday before returning to the White House. Other changes to the campaign schedule will be announced as warranted.
The White House says Obama is being regularly updated on the storm. He has directed his team to work to bring all available resources needed by state and local governments preparing for the storm, which could affect a third of the country with high winds, heavy rains and flooding.
Environment Canada says the storm will lose strength as it turns inland.Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
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