[ even CNN is brave enough to say that Florida might get hit ] Hurricane Irma has strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center said, as the storm threatened to slam into northeastern Caribbean islands and Puerto Rico by Wednesday before possibly taking aim at the US mainland.
Irma was churning Tuesday morning in the Atlantic about 270 miles east of Antigua and Barbuda, heading west with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph -- well above the 157-mph threshold for a Category 5, the strongest classification. It is still too early to tell the exact impact Irma will have on the United States. Computer models show the system eventually heading toward Cuba and possibly turning north toward Florida by the weekend. Track the storm here. 10 AM Tueday Sept 5 2017 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to massfire+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to massfire@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
