Folks in the Carolinas were getting ready late Friday for a good soaking from Tropical Storm Hanna.As of 8 p.m. ET, Hanna was approximately 200 miles south-southwest of Wilmington, North Carolina, sporting maximum sustained winds near 70 mph with higher gusts, just below hurricane status of 74 mph, the National Hurricane Center reported.
The storm, which had spent several days meandering around the southern Bahamas, was moving north at about 20 mph, and forecasters expected it to speed up even more Saturday before turning northeast.
Staying on this projection, Hanna's center would remain off the Florida and Georgia coasts Friday evening and make landfall in the Carolinas in the early hours of Saturday, according to the hurricane estimates. Forecasters have not ruled out the possibility that Hanna will become a hurricane before it reaches land.
A tropical storm warning ranges from Altamaha Sound, Georgia, to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, including all of Chesapeake Bay, the tidal Potomac River, Washington and Delaware Bay.
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