According to the news updates, When dumping heavy rain on the East Coast all weekend, Storm Joaquin is heading farther northeast, toward Bermuda.
Joaquin, the third storm of this year’s Atlantic season, has weakened from a Category 4 storm to a Category 2.
Its maximum wind speeds have decreased from 130 miles per hour to 100 miles per hour.
Bermuda is already suffering storm conditions, and the eye of the storm is expected to whirl past the British island land late Sunday night. The U.S. National Hurricane Center forecasts three to five inches of rain there, and says isolated tornadoes are possible.
In the United States, Joaquin appears to have done its most horrible in South Carolina this weekend. More than 18 inches of rain in roughly 24 hours fell in the state, leading to severe flooding.
Charleston got nearly one foot of rain on Saturday, contravention the city’s record for that day that was set in 1998. Three people have died as a result of the storm, and hundreds of of homes and businesses have flooded.
