While much attention remains on Texas and the destruction left by Hurricane Harvey and its historic rainfall, powerful Hurricane Irma is rapidly intensifying in the open Atlantic and poses a major threat to the Caribbean and potentially to the United States next week.
With the storm still five days away from the outermost Caribbean islands and at least a week away from any potential US impacts, there is still a lot of uncertainty about where it will go.
The range of possibilities presented by the forecast models more than a week out literally spreads from Mexico to Canada — and everywhere in between.
Irma was designated a tropical storm Wednesday morning, and by Thursday afternoon, it had strengthened into a large Category 3 hurricane, with winds of 115 mph. Read more at CNN.
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WARNING: HURRICANE IRMA PROJECTED TO HIT NEW YORK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX5zMU5ZM6w
This from a flaky web site.
The National Hurricane Center makes no such prediction. Current probable track for Irma shows it heading for Georgia/South Carolina.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?cone#contents