As of Wednesday morning, September 20, it is moving to Puerto Rico, keeping the fifth power category. According to the National Hurricane Center of the United States of America, now the hurricane is moving at a speed of 225 kilometers per hour and has already approached the US Virgin Islands, which it will get on Wednesday, weather forecasters predict.

However, the center warns that the fifth category hurricane is approaching the island of St. Croix and therefore the preparation for life-threatening storm waves and rains, floods and destructive winds should be completed as soon as possible.

In turn, the inhabitants of the island of St. John reported heavy rains and trees falling from the powerful wind.

It is also reported that Hurricane Maria took the lives of at least two people in the French territory of Guadeloupe, two more people are missing.

One person was killed by the fall of a tree, another died on the coast. Two people disappeared when their boat disappeared during a storm, local authorities reported..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, Hurricane Maria spared the Caribbean island of Antigua, when he passed nearby, and went to Puerto Rico.