While Alabama remains out of Dorian’s path, coastal areas of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are under hurricane warnings as the storm is now projected to move up the Southeastern coast.
Over the weekend, President Trump also insisted that Dorian’s projected path included Alabama.
“Alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that, it could be,” he said Sunday. “This just came up, unfortunately. It’s the size of — the storm that we’re talking about. So, for Alabama, just please be careful also.”
At the end of last week, the National Hurricane Center did include Alabama in its prediction for tropical-force winds:
But by Sunday, the National Weather Service in Birmingham, Ala., clarified that the state would not feel any affects of Dorian:
Trump is known to use Sharpies to sign bills and to mark up newspaper and magazine articles. But the White House has so far not commented on who altered the weather map, or if indeed a Sharpie was used.
Later Wednesday, Trump tweeted a map from the South Florida Water Management District from Aug. 28, saying it was the “originally projected path of the Hurricane in its early stages.” Though he said the map shows “almost all models predicted it to go through Florida also hitting Georgia and Alabama,” the paths drawn out on the map mostly miss Alabama. The map also notes at the bottom: “[National Hurricane Center] Advisories and County Emergency Management statements supercede this product.”
While Alabama remains out of Dorian’s path, coastal areas of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are under hurricane warnings as the storm is now projected to move up the Southeastern coast.
Over the weekend, President Trump also insisted that Dorian’s projected path included Alabama.
“Alabama could even be in for at least some very strong winds and something more than that, it could be,” he said Sunday. “This just came up, unfortunately. It’s the size of — the storm that we’re talking about. So, for Alabama, just please be careful also.”
