Hurricane Irma Now 'Potentially Catastrophic' With Winds Hitting at Least 1. Miles Per Hour. Category 5 Hurricane Irma is currently barreling through the Atlantic Ocean and is now considered the strongest recorded storm in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico, the Weather Channel reported Tuesday night.“I am at a complete and utter loss for words looking at Irma’s appearance on satellite imagery,” National Hurricane Center Storm Surge Unit senior scientist Taylor Trogdon tweeted. The storm is currently closing in on the island of Barbuda and has reached at least 1. Watch The Family Stone Online Free 2016 more.

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The only hurricane anywhere in the Atlantic ever known to have stronger winds was Allen (1. Weather Underground wrote.

According to Weather Underground, its trajectory is set to take it “near or just between Antigua and Barbuda during the predawn hours Wednesday”; it will subsequently pass St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, St. Barthelemy and the British Virgin Islands. Later, it will “rake Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Cuba,” the Guardian wrote, before it could possibly curve north and strike parts of southern Florida this weekend. The National Hurricane Center issued a dire warning on Tuesday night, writing the storm could be “potentially catastrophic.” Storm surge is expected to be terrifying throughout much of Irma’s path, the NHC showed, with some regions expected to receive surges of up to 1. Anguilla, all the way toward [Antigua and] Barbuda, all the way up even toward the British Virgin Islands [are] in grave danger of an eye wall hit at [at least] 1.

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers said. That devastates the island, no matter what island it is.”Per CNN, Irma has sent residents in the path of the storm from the Caribbean to Florida scurrying to move boats to land, reinforce residences and scour stores for supplies. A state of emergency was declared in Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, while Florida Gov. Rick Scott said 7,0. National Guard troops had been ordered to deploy by Friday.“I cannot stress this enough,” Scott said. Get prepared. Learn your evacuation zone. Listen to your locals.

This storm has the potential to devastate this state. You have to take this seriously.”Irma is the second devastating hurricane in the Atlantic in just a few weeks.

In August, Hurricane Harvey slammed into southeast Texas, killing at least 5. As the Weather Channel noted, climate change could result in hurricanes which stress the boundaries of the Category 5 rating by the end of the century, with the worst- case scenario for the Tampa Bay area featuring “maximum sustained winds of 2. Florida’s Gulf Coast, producing a devastating 3. Weather Channel, Weather Underground, National Hurricane Center]Update 1: 1. ET: Per the New York Times, winds from Irma have already began to pummel Antigua and Barbuda early on Wednesday morning. Authorities cut off power, “forcing residents to listen to the latest forecasts on transistor radios in the darkness,” and locals crammed into nearly 4. Antigua under fear their homes would blow down.

According to the Weather Channel, Irma’s eyewall—the massive vortex which surrounds the calm eye of a hurricane—has slammed into Barbuda, with “sustained winds of 9. Gusts are reaching 1.