The National Weather Service's Birmingham office issued a tweet on Sunday correcting President Trump's comments that Hurricane Dorian is expected to hit Alabama.
Trump had said Alabama was expected to get a "beat down" from the storm.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Federal Emergency Management Agency briefing on hurricane Dorian at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, U.S., September 1, 2019.Hurricane Dorian will not hit Alabama, said the National Weather Service on Sunday, contradicting comments made by President Trump earlier., " said the NWS office in Birmingham, Alabama in a Twitter post Sunday.
Trump suggested much the same thing about Alabama in comments to reporters on Sunday on the White House South Lawn. "We don't know where it's going to hit, seems to be going to Florida, now it should be going to Georgia, the Carolinas," he said. "Alabama to get a bit of a beat down. You'll be learning more probably over the course of the next 24 hours."The storm was sustaining wind speeds of 185 miles per hour as of Sunday afternoon, making it the strongest hurricane on record in the area.
The National Hurricane Center has issued storm warnings for several areas along Florida's east coast. It also said rainfall could produce flash floods in the coastal Carolinas and Georgia.
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