As Hurricane Dorian heads to Florida, several airlines at the Merida airport are canceling flights to Miami starting Sunday.
American Airlines, United, Delta, Interjet, Volaris and Aeromexico all have routes from Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport in Yucatan, Mexico, to Miami.
It is not known when flights to Florida will resume.
Forecasters say Dorian, which had top sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph) Friday night, will threaten the Florida peninsula late Monday or early Tuesday.
Dorian has gained strength and is an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm, bearing down on the northwestern Bahamas early today en route to Florida’s east coast.
Millions of people in Florida, along with Walt Disney World and President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, are in the potential crosshairs of the hurricane.
Some of the more reliable computer models predicted a late turn northward that would have Dorian hug the Florida coast.
“There is hope,” Weather Underground meteorology director Jeff Masters said.
Early Saturday, Dorian was centered 470 miles / 755 kilometers east of West Palm Beach.
The National Hurricane Center’s advisory released at 5 a.m. Saturday also warned that the “risk of strong winds and life-threatening storm surge” during the middle of next week is increasing along Georgia and South Carolina’s coasts.
Dorian was expected to hit the northwestern part of the Bahamas by Sunday with the potential for life-threatening storm surge that could raise water levels 15 feet / 5 meters above normal.
Source: Sipse, The Associated Press