Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Irene bore down on the U.S. with Category 1-force winds of 90 miles (150 kilometers) an hour as warnings were posted from North Carolina to southern New England, including New York City.
Irene weakened from Category 2 as it moved toward the coast of North Carolina on its path to the Northeast, where New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the first mandatory evacuation in the city’s history.
The center of Irene is now expected to make landfall in North Carolina in the next few hours, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an advisory at 5 a.m. New York time. The storm was about 35 miles south of Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and 95 miles south-southwest of Cape Hatteras. Irene was a Category 3 storm two days earlier.
“The center of Irene will make landfall in eastern North Carolina during the next few hours and then move across eastern North Carolina,” the center said. “The hurricane is forecast to move over the mid-Atlantic coast tonight and move over southern New England on Sunday.”
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