Hurricane Irma a giant, record breaking storm

Armagh is now the strongest hurricane to ever plow into the leeward islands
yesterday we mentioned only hurricane Allen from 1980 was stronger in recorded
history for the Atlantic by five miles per hour
irma today however has surpassed Allen by continuing to churn for over 24 hours
with winds above 180 Alan never did that we are going to get in closer now and
take a look at this massive eye that was 23 miles in diameter
yesterday expected it to swallow up Barbuda st. Martin Anguilla
communication is out power is out until the back edge slides through these
islands aircraft will not be able to get up to assess the damage from above
I'm sure civil emergency management crews are on the ground trying to assess
the damage but we have had no contact the system is moving at 16 miles per
hour remember Harvey only moved to 2 or 3 we could out lock it but on Barbuda if
you look at the winds gusts 118 27 131 151 154 155 and then the instrument
broke that's how massive the storm is 4 to 6
foot storm surge on the northern coast of Puerto Rico the center is now 55
miles from San Juan hurricane force winds are spreading across the island so
again heavy amounts of rain mainly in the mountainous areas could cause
obviously some landslides flash flooding and a concern on the coastline warnings
now in the Turks and Caicos they're expecting a storm surge of 20 to 25 feet
because they're going to be in the north and northeastern quadrant that's where
the winds and the winds are going to be a little stronger in those surf waves as
they crash into that area here is the change now from last night until this
morning the National Hurricane Center shifted the center notice where we have
our little category 4 in southern Florida shifted about 60 to 70 miles
eastward they have left the cone of uncertainty stretching west that gives
us that window if the system decides to edge that direction but they also have
extended that cone of uncertainty further eastward which may now tell us
if it's continuing to trend eastward maybe we're looking at a landfall either
on a Miami along the east coast of Florida or into the Carolinas let's
break it down a little closer for you and look at these spaghetti plots
another change is this yesterday more of the models mu
denne to cuba the higher terrain with the mountains over 6,000 metres would
shred the system down and maybe break it down to a category 2 most of the models
do not interact with Cuba now so it sustains its strength over the very warm
waters still sometimes Saturday a turn to the north and now with that shift
eastward it looks like Monroe County miami-dade
right on Miami maybe even making its way along the coast possibly back over water
around Cape Canaveral slides into Savannah Georgia if I show you quickly
what the models are doing again let's just go ahead and pull up the US and the
European they're on top of each other right now let's put this into motion
you're going to see no interaction with Cuba here is landfall near Miami it
continues to make its way northward both models carry it back over water then
into Georgia and the Carolinas we've got an interesting situation right now we're
setting up because we now have Jose back behind the system as a hurricane and
another one but just to remind you of what Matthew did along the coastline 15
billion dollars in economic losses and that was just off the coast guess what
Katia just became a hurricane in the southern Gulf of Mexico we have three it
has not happened since 2010 when we had Carl Julia and Igor I believe it was but
Jose may become a major category follow suit and come very close to those
northern islands again of the Lesser Antilles before turning northward this
is getting crazy with
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Hurricane Irma a giant, record breaking storm

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