![]() ![]() Officials on San Andres imposed a curfew for residents at 6 a.m. It was centred about 80 miles (130 kilometres) east-northeast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, and was moving west at 16 mph (26 kph), with landfall on the Nicaraguan coast expected before dawn.Ĭolombian President Gustavo Petro had declared a “maximum alert” on San Andres as well as Providencia island to the north and asked hotels to prepare space to shelter the vulnerable population. National Hurricane Center said Julia's maximum sustained winds had stabilized around 75 mph (120 kph) late Saturday. Julia started Saturday as a tropical storm, but gained power most of the day and became a Category 1 hurricane shortly before it veered slightly south of San Andres island in the early evening. Hurricane Julia bore down on Nicaragua's central Caribbean coast early Sunday after lashing Colombia's San Andres island in a close pass-by hours earlier. ![]()
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