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Latest update on Hurricane Irma

Posted: Friday, September 8, 2017. 1:10 pm CST.

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By BBN Staff: The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is closely monitoring Hurricanes Irma, Katia and Jose in the Atlantic.

As of 11 this morning, the  eye of Hurricane Irma was located near latitude 22.0 North and longitude 75.3 West. Irma is moving toward the west-northwest near 14 miles per hour and this motion is expected to continue for the next day or so with a decrease in forward speed.

A turn toward the northwest is expected by late Saturday.

Forecasters say that the eye of Irma should move near the north coast of Cuba and the central Bahamas today and Saturday, and be near the Florida Keys and the southern Florida Peninsula Sunday morning. Maximum sustained winds are near 150 miles per hour with higher gusts.

According to the NHC, Irma is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.  Some fluctuations in intensity are likely during the next day or two, but Irma is forecasted to remain a powerful category 4 hurricane as it approaches Florida.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles (110 km) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 185 miles (295 km).

A Storm Surge Watch has been issued from north of Sebastian Inlet to Ponce Inlet.

The Hurricane Watch has been extended northward along the east coast of Florida to the Flagler/Volusia County Line, and along the west coast of Florida to Anclote River.

A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for:

* Sebastian Inlet southward around the Florida peninsula to Venice

* Florida Keys

A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for:

* North of Sebastian Inlet to Ponce Inlet

A Hurricane Warning is in effect for:

* Jupiter Inlet southward around the Florida peninsula to Bonita

Beach

* Florida Keys

* Lake Okeechobee

* Florida Bay

* Southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands

* Cuban provinces of Camaguey, Ciego de Avila, Sancti Spiritus, and

Villa Clara

* Central Bahamas

* Northwestern Bahamas

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for:

* North of Jupiter Inlet to the Flagler/Volusia County Line

* North of Bonita Beach to Anclote River

* Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Holguin, Las Tunas and Matanzas

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for:

* Cuban provinces of Guantanamo, Holguin, and Las Tunas

A Storm Surge Warning means there is a danger of life-threatening inundation, from rising water moving inland from the coastline, during the next 36 hours in the indicated locations.

 

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