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This does not look good:
Irma is already Cat 2 and intensifying rapidly. Its predicted path is also ominous.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/145426.shtml?cone#contents
longship
(40,416 posts)Hope it goes away. However, the conditions that brought us Harvey will likely influence Irma as well.
We might be screwn here.
Hope not. We've had enough already.
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)Not while people are just now coming out of shelters and going back to their devastated homes.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I hope no one has to flee. I'll be nervously watching it from the Florida east coast.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)Hurricane Irma remains potential threat to the East Coast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/02/hurricane-irma-remains-a-potential-u-s-threat-expected-to-become-a-category-4-in-days-ahead/?utm_term=.5a0e4ee0f6a8
malaise
(269,257 posts)It will eventually return to its WNW track. Early days but this looks like trouble.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)The storm will turn to the north and west over the coming days. This track will put Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands, in the brunt of the storm's rain and wind spanning Tuesday and Wednesday.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/major-hurricane-irma-to-brush-northern-caribbean-as-it-tracks-toward-the-us-this-week/70002631
Hurricane Irma could strike U.S. East Coast by next weekend, or it could curve out to sea
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/09/03/hurricane-irma-could-strike-u-s-east-coast-by-next-weekend-or-it-could-curve-out-to-sea/?utm_term=.6a9b2305971b
malaise
(269,257 posts)the Virgin Islands but that could be Cat2 if Irma is Cat4
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Irma is being pushed to the south of west by a strong area of high pressure to its north.
Irma has made the expected turn to the west-southwest, and the next few days will be very important in determining where the storm goes next.
The hurricane is expected to turn back to the west on Monday. How far south it is when it makes that turn will determine if it strikes the Leeward Islands, and, further down the road, any potential impact on the U.S.
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/09/hurricane_irma_2017_strengthen.html