Hurricane Irma has strengthened into an “extremely unsafe” Category 5 storm,the National Hurricane middle said, threatening to slam into northeastern Caribbean islands and Puerto Rico by Wednesday before possibly taking aim at the US mainland. Irma was churning Tuesday morning in the Atlantic about 270 miles east of Antigua and Barbuda, and heading west with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph — well above the 157 mph threshold for a Category 5 — the hurricane middle said. The storm’s forecast track currently […]
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