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Hurricane Dorian’s slow pace makes it dangerous and hard to predict

Stalled storms dump extreme amounts of rain as they swirl in place

Hurricane Dorian radar image

On September 3, Hurricane Dorian finally left the Bahamas as a category 2 storm. It was a powerful category 5 when it slammed into the island nation September 1.

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By Carolyn Gramling

- More than 2 years ago

Hurricane Dorian has been a slow, near-record-breaking, rough beast of a storm.