At the same time, the hurricane became weaker, having reached the level of "extremely dangerous" up to the fourth category. Such data was disseminated by the National Hurricane Center of the USA - noted on the NHS website. It is known that now "Mary" has already dropped to the fourth category, the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane has already reached the coast. Yabucoa, located in the east of Puerto Rico - at the beginning of Wednesday, 20 September - at a wind speed of about 250 km / h. This hurricane is located 50 km southeast of the capital of Puerto Rico - San Juan.
As reported URA-Inform, on September 20, Hurricane Maria began to approach the Virgin Islands.