In Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, strong winds from the powerful hurricane took residents by surprise on Tuesday afternoon
At around 0600 GMT, the hurricane was about 250 miles east-southeast of the Jamaican capital of Kingston, according the U.S. National Hurricane Center ,packing maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour .
The country’s southwestern peninsula could get 4-8 inches of rain, with as much as 12 inches in some places, the NHC said. New Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille warned residents to take precautions and stay alert. The storm hit St. Vincent and the Grenadines especially hard, according to Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.
In a video briefing on Tuesday, Grenada’s prime minister, Dickon Mitchell, stressed that Carriacou and Petite Martinique, two of the three islands that make up the country, bore the brunt of the natural disaster, calling the situation “Armageddon-like”. In Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, north of St. Vincent, video shared on social media showed flooded streets and locals attempting to clear away debris.
The unusually early timing and rapid intensification of the storm is partly due to warmer ocean temperatures, scientists say.
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