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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Eric Holthaus

Hurricane Erin intensified at a near-record rate. Is Florida ready for the next big storm?

bird eye view of a Hurricane
Erin’s intensification rate was not perfectly captured by the National Hurricane Center in advance, nor by any of the computer models it uses. Photograph: NOAA/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

This season’s first hurricane – and the first of the Trump administration’s new era of meteorological austerity – has been making its closest pass to the US this week.

On Friday morning, weaker than days earlier, it was still a large storm, heading north-east, and affecting the US east coast with threats of coastal flooding.

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