Slower storms could be our new normal.
Hurricane Dorian is moving over the Bahamas at just one mile per hour - slower than most people walk.
Dorian slowly churned through the Caribbean over the weekend, tying for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever when it struck the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph on Sunday.
It has since weakened to a Category 4 with 150-mph winds, but it has lingered over Grand Bahama for over 12 hours, where it first made landfall at 11 p.m. ET on Sunday. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects it to remain there through Monday night.
Satellites used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show just how slow the hurricane's movement has been.
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"The slower you go, that means more rain. That means more time that you're going to have those winds. That's a long period of time to have hurricane-force winds and tropical-storm force winds," NHC director Ken Graham said in a Facebook live video on Friday, before the storm had reached the Bahamas. "All of a sudden we have trees down, more power lines down. So, a very serious situation."
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