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Hurricane Dorian Is Not a Freak Storm

Its record-breaking power is in line with recent, worrisome trends.
Source: Tim Aylen / AP

After a second long night, Hurricane Dorian is still, improbably, lingering over the Bahamas. Since hitting Great Abaco as a Category 5 on Sunday afternoon, the storm has stubbornly refused to move, crawling along at just , then five, then one, then virtually standing still as it unleashed “” on the island nation. Though the storm has been downgraded to a Category 3 and is now forecast to skirt past the coastline of the southeastern United States, it still threatens to bring strong winds,

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