Hurricane Dorian is going to come very, very close to Florida

Enlarge / Official forecast track for Hurricane Dorian as of 8am ET. (credit: National Hurricane Center)

During the overnight hours, Hurricane Dorian has pounded the northern Bahamas with devastating winds, storm surge levels of 20 feet above normal, and very heavy rainfall. Dorian has tied the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 with the highest landfalling wind speeds in the Atlantic basin, hitting Great Abaco Island with 185-mph winds.

The storm has weakened slightly this morning, as its eye has expanded, and its organization lessened a little bit. As of 8am ET, the National Hurricane Center estimated winds at165 mph.

Another significant problem is that high pressure to the north of Dorian has weakened during the last 24 hours, causing the storm's steering currents to collapse. This has led Dorian to essentially halt over Grand Bahama Island on Monday morning, prolonging the Category 5 hurricane misery over the northern Bahamas. The tweet from the National Hurricane Center's Eric Blake demonstrates this painful stall over the Bahamas.

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