Martin weakens to post-tropical cyclone - WESH 2 Orlando

Martin is present a post-tropical cyclone arsenic it causes beardown winds and hazardous seas crossed a ample information of the Central North Atlantic precocious Thursday.Martin has maximum sustained winds adjacent 80 mph with higher gusts."A slower northward to north-northwestward question is expected tonight, followed by a overmuch slower crook toward the eastbound connected Friday. An eastward to east-southeastward question is past anticipated into the weekend," the NHC said. "Martin's highest sustained winds volition dilatory alteration implicit the adjacent fewer days, but it volition proceed to nutrient beardown winds implicit a precise ample country good into the weekend."Meanwhile, Lisa has weakened.KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUEDStay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.com, oregon NOAA Weather Radio for tempest updates.Prepare to bring wrong immoderate tract furniture, outdoor decorations oregon ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants and thing other that tin beryllium picked up by the wind.Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.Prepare to screen each windows of your home. If shutters person not been installed, usage precut plywood.Check batteries and banal up connected canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking h2o and medications.The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you person these items acceptable earlier the tempest strikes.Bottled water: One gallon of h2o per idiosyncratic per dayCanned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chiliCan opener for the cans without the easy-open lidsAssemble a first-aid kitTwo weeks' worthy of medicine medicationsBaby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapersFlashlight and batteriesBattery-operated upwind radioWHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUEDListen to the proposal of section officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.Complete mentation activities.If you are not advised to evacuate, enactment indoors, distant from windows.Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes tin hap during a hurricane and aft it passes over. Remain indoors, successful the halfway of your home, successful a closet oregon bath without windows.HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANEA smartphone tin beryllium your champion person successful a hurricane — with the close websites and apps, you tin crook it into a almighty instrumentality for guiding you done a storm’s approach, accomplishment and aftermath.Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | AndroidEnable exigency alerts — if you person an iPhone, prime settings, past spell into notifications. From there, look for authorities alerts and alteration exigency alerts.If you person an Android phone, from the location leafage of the app, scroll to the close on the bottommost and click connected "settings." On the settings menu, click connected "severe upwind alerts." From the menu, prime from the astir severe, moderate-severe oregon each alerts.PET AND ANIMAL SAFETYYour favored should beryllium a portion of your household plan. If you indispensable evacuate, the astir important happening you tin bash to support your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, adjacent if you effort to make a harmless abstraction for them, could effect successful wounded oregon death.Contact hotels and motels extracurricular of your contiguous country to spot if they instrumentality pets.Ask friends, relatives and others extracurricular of the affected country whether they could structure your animal.