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The US National Hurricane Center announced that Hurricane "Fiona" made landfall in the Dominican Republic today, with torrential rains sweeping through Puerto Rico, which reached yesterday.
"The Dominican Republic is experiencing heavy rain and strong winds of up to 140 kilometers per hour," Eric Blake of the National Hurricane Center told Reuters.
The eye of Hurricane Fiona made landfall in the Dominican Republic, near Boca, one day, uprooting trees, electricity poles and billboards.
And Fiona made landfall in Puerto Rico yesterday and hit the southwestern coast of the island, causing a power outage on the entire island, and storm clouds covered the entire Puerto Rico, and tropical cyclone winds extended up to 220 kilometers from its center.
Meteorologists have warned of high levels of rain, landslides and floods.
Fiona hit the island just two days before the fifth anniversary of the devastating Category 4 hurricane, “Maria,” which hit the island on September 20, 2017, destroying the island’s electricity network and killing about 3,000 people.
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