Hurricane Ian downgraded to tropical storm

By Breaking Belize News Staff: Hurricane Ian has been downgraded to a post-tropical storm with maximum 35-mile per hour winds as the remnants of a second arm were moving north through North Carolina on Saturday and was forecast to weaken further before dissipating over south-central Virginia by nightfall, according to the National Weather Service.

The death toll from the hurricane, one of the strongest in US history, climbed to at least 30 in Florida and South Carolina and left flooding and vast swaths of devastation in its wake.

An estimated 1.3 million were still without power in Florida Saturday, and about 51,000 in South Carolina were in the dark.

The storm’s heavy rains continued across the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic region, with Ian “forecast to dissipate over south-central Virginia by tonight,” according to the National Hurricane Center.

Ian has mostly moved out to sea after cutting a deadly path across Cuba, Florida and parts of South Carolina earlier this week, but heavy rain from the remnants of the storm will continue swamping the New York City metro area.

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