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ALBANY, N.Y. (Sept. 3, 2019) -- After stalling over the Bahamas as one of the Atlantic's most intense storms on record, Hurricane Dorian is finally moving northeast toward the U.S.

The storm – now a Category 2 with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph – is forecast to move "dangerously close" to the Florida coast late Tuesday through Wednesday evening, the National Hurricane Center said in an 11 a.m. update on Tuesday.

The following hurricane experts in the  at the University at Albany are continuing to track the storm and available for media insight:

• , an associate professor, studies hurricane formation as well as the structure and intensity change of tropical cyclones. She was featured as an expert in 2017 when Hurricane Irma was preparing to make landfall in Florida, and has been quoted in several national print media outlets, including the .

• , an assistant professor, specializes on various aspects of tropical cyclones, including their formation and intensification. He has been quoted in numerous national media outlets including , and .

• , chair and professor, studies weather forecasting models, tropical cyclones, and atmospheric predictability. Torn has been featured as a guest on the Jim Bohannon Show, a national syndicated radio talk show heard on over 300 stations across the country. He was interviewed by for his work with the National Hurricane Center to develop a new method that determines where to take observations that will improve hurricane track forecasts.

Corbosiero, Tang and Torn are available for phone or live/taped interviews. UAlbany also has an on-campus television studio for satellite interviews.

About UAlbany’s Weather-Climate Enterprise:

With close to 120 faculty, researchers and staff, UAlbany hosts the largest concentration of atmospheric, climate and environmental scientists in New York State, and one of the largest in the nation. Led by its and , UAlbany is also home to the , the xCITE R&D laboratory, and the – the most advanced mesoscale weather observation system in the nation.

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