With the latest weather updates,Florida Gov. Rick Scott urged Floridians not to disregard the danger of Hurricane Irma. "whether you're in an evacuation zone, you have to evacuate, or " he said this morning. "You will not survive all this storm surge."The Washington Post this morning:The extraordinarily large and intense Hurricane Irma is drawing ever closer to South Florida and the first rain bands are pivoting across extreme South Florida. A hurricane catastrophe has become nearly unavoidable; it’s only a matter of what areas are hardest hit and how severely.
Computer model information overnight Friday early Saturday propose Irma is most likely to track up Florida’s west coast. Although small shifts in the track are still possible,the Florida Keys, Naples, and Fort Myers,and Tampa, all seem likely to be severely impacted.
Irrespective of the storm’s exact track, or damaging winds are likely to blast most whether not all of the Florida peninsula. With the storm still more than two hundred miles away,Miami International Airport clocked a wind gust of 57 mph just after 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
When it strikes Florida, Irma is likely to be comparable in strength to Hurricane Andrew, and which devastated parts of South Florida in 1992,but much larger in size.read more
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