![]() Irma has the potential to be a devastating storm for The Bahamas, especially its southern islands, and residents should rush any needed preparations to completion.Ĭuba: From Friday into Saturday, Irma will be paralleling the north coast of Cuba, and it is possible Irma’s center will move just inland along the coast for some period of time. All four models move Irma northward along or near Florida’s east coast, with landfall in Georgia or South Carolina on Monday.īahamas: From late Thursday into Friday, Irma will be moving through or just south of the Southeast Bahamas, which are under a Hurricane Warning along with the Central Bahamas. The average track error in a 4-day forecast is 175 miles, but this remarkable agreement among the models lends additional confidence to the NHC forecast track, which brings Irma over or very near southeast Florida on Sunday. All four model runs placed the center of Irma within roughly 50 miles of Miami on Sunday morning the latest 18Z GFS was also there. ![]() The 12Z Wednesday runs of our top four track models-the European, GFS, HWRF, and UKMET models-were in strikingly close agreement that Irma will continue on a west-northwest track till Saturday, then arc sharply to the north-northwest. Longer-range outlook for Irma: Cuba, The Bahamas, and Southeast U.S. The eye of the storm was over the British Virgin Islands. MODIS image of Irma on Wednesday afternoon, September 6, 2017. As of 5 pm EDT Wednesday, Irma had spent a remarkable 1.5 days as a Category 5 hurricane, which is the 7 th longest stretch on record in the Atlantic, according to Dr. ![]() Above: Radar image of Irma from the Puerto Rico radar at 9 pm EDT September 6, 2017.Īfter clobbering the Lesser Antilles islands of Barbuda, Saint Barthelemy, Anguilla, and Saint Martin/ Sint Maarten early Wednesday morning, Hurricane Irma carried its march of destruction into the British Virgin Islands on Wednesday afternoon, still packing top winds of 185 mph.
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