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Relief organizations are preparing for the second devastating storm in as many weeks in Central American as Hurricane Iota heads for Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and southern Belize, the same regions hit by Hurricane Eta earlier this month.

Catastrophic Category 5 Hurricane Dorian has unleashed a devastating storm surge, destructive winds, and blinding rain over the Northern Bahama Islands and is now parked close to the Florida peninsula. A turn may determine the fate of the East Coast.

Hurricane Dorian has become a Category 5 tropical cyclone this morning as it heads toward the northwest in the Atlantic to the Bahamas, where it is expected to make catastrophic landfall sometime on Sunday.

Hong Kong - The strongest storm on Earth in 2018 barreled through the northern Philippines before dawn on Saturday, leaving destruction and death in its wake. Now Mangkhut is on a collision course with Hong Kong and on a direct path with two nuclear power plants.

As Hurricane Florence approaches the East Coast of the United States, the governors of Virginia, North and South Carolina have issued mandatory evacuation orders affecting hundreds of thousands of residents in coastal areas.

San Juan - The window of time for getting to a government shelter is closing fast as Hurricane Maria, a powerful and deadly Category 5 storm bears down on Puerto Rico. Gov. Ricardo Rosselló said conditions for the U.S. territory were deteriorating rapidly.

Hurricane Irma smashed small northern Caribbean islands Wednesday morning as one of the strongest storms recorded in the Atlantic, as its path moves it closer to the British Virgin Islands and northern Puerto Rico later today.

"Hurricane Irma has intensified into an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane," the National Hurricane Center says, citing the latest data from NOAA and Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft.

Hurricane Matthew became a major storm earlier on Friday and quickly intensified through the day. Matthew is now a Category 5 storm and has become a threat to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti and the Bahamas.

Typhoon Meranti struck China's southeastern coast on Wednesday EDT, coming ashore near Xiamen in Fujian Province after plowing past the southern edge of Taiwan.

Equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, Super Typhoon Meranti is expected to hit Taiwan and mainland China on Wednesday. Meranti reached Category 5 status on Monday afternoon local time as it churned through the western Pacific.

Early on Friday morning, super typhoon Nepartak came knocking at Taiwan's door, bringing with it sustained winds of 150 mph with gusts of up to 185 mph, and churning up huge waves, keeping ships in port and causing airlines to cancel flights.