ORLANDO, Fla. – Hurricane Dorian is crawling westward at just 1 mph as it pounds the Bahamas and remains on track to come perilously close to the Florida coastline.

According to a 5 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the Category 5 storm’s top sustained winds have decreased to 165 mph.

The center of the storm remains around 40 miles east of Grand Bahama’s largest city, Freeport. It’s also around 115 miles east of West Palm Beach.

The update says Grand Bahama is being slammed with destructive hurricane-force winds.

The hurricane is expected to continue battering Grand Bahama through Monday. Forecasters said Dorian was most likely to begin pulling away from the Bahamas early Tuesday and curving to the northeast parallel to the Florida coast.

The National Hurricane Center forecasts Dorian to be 40 to 50 miles off the Florida coast on Tuesday and Wednesday, with hurricane-force wind speeds extending about 35 miles to the west. But that’s just one point that forecasters have to choose to place the monstrous storm that packed 185 mph winds on Sunday. It could be within 100 miles of that point , which is why the hurricane center uses – and emphasizes – a shaded cone of uncertainty and much of the Florida coast is in that cone.