ALABAMA, United States (Reuters) — Resident of the southern U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi woke up on Sunday (October 8) to asses the damage left overnight by Hurricane Nate as its winds rapidly weakened.
Nate’s maximum sustained winds dropped to 45 miles per hour (70 km per hour) as it moved northeast into Alabama, prompting the National Hurricane Center to end its tropical storm warning for the region east of the Alabama-Florida border on Sunday morning. Only a few hours earlier it had been blowing at 70 mph (110 km per hour), but Nate appeared to lack the devastating punch of its recent predecessors.
Nate follows a succession of big Atlantic hurricanes, Harvey, Irma and Maria, that have devastated areas of the Caribbean and southern United States in the last two months.