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[Ed note: for up-to-date info, see also: NOAA National Hurricane Center, Mike's Weather Page, windy.com, NWS - Hourly Weather Forecast Graph - Tampa, and NWS - Hourly Weather Forecast Graph - Miami.]
At 8:28AM September 5, Zero Hedge reported
Irma is now the [strongest] hurricane [ever] in the Atlantic basin, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, in [US National Hurricane Center] records.
[...] meteorologist Eric Holthaus writes that Hurricane Irma is now expected to *exceed* the theoretical maximum intensity for a storm in its environment, or as he puts it "Redefining the rules".
[...] Irma's current path--headed straight for Florida--has prompted the state to prepare for the "catastrophic" system.
Unlike Harvey, which caused widespread damage, power outages and flooding and taking almost a fifth of U.S. oil refining capacity offline, Irma is a bigger threat to agriculture, with orange juice futures surging.
[...] Florida is the world's largest producer of orange juice after Brazil. About two-thirds of the state's citrus crop is located in the lower two-thirds of the peninsula.
[...] Airlines have canceled flights across the Caribbean and are adding planes to evacuate tourists, while cruise-line stocks have tumbled.
[...] Only three Category 5 hurricanes have hit the contiguous 48 U.S. states, [said Bob Henson, a meteorologist with Weather Underground:] The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 that devastated the Florida Keys, Hurricane Camille in 1969, and Hurricane Andrew that cut across Florida in 1992. Andrew was originally classified as a Category 4 storm only to be upgraded years later after further analysis.
"It is obviously a rare breed", Henson said. "We are in rare territory."
At 12:37PM September 5, Heavy.com reported
The Florida governor has declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Irma reaches a Category 5 storm. The Florida Keys are currently in the hurricane's path, although the storm remains unpredictable.
[...] Irma has [...] maximum sustained winds [of] 185 mph. It was moving west at 14 mph and is about 270 miles east of Antigua. The Florida Keys are in the projected path of the hurricane, according to September 4 late evening forecasts.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @09:02AM (2 children)
You narcissistic twat, are you so full of yourself that you cannot recognize when you've been masterfully trolled?
Irrespective of the relative merits of the arguments at hand, you have been deliberately and quite nicely triggered for FSM knows how many times.
Really, dude, the only reason people keep you around is for entertainment value, and precious little of that.
In moments of rare lucidity, you sometimes actually say something rational. Why do you insist on drowning the worthwhile bits in a sea of paranoid self-pity and raving egotism?
You should try to get over yourself. The whole world stands to benefit.
(Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:24AM (1 child)
Just who do you think you are, AC? You are nobody, a nothing, an anonymous coward amongst thousands of other anonymous cowards. And you have the gall to criticism me? I am aristarchus, I have been around for millennia, and I know well whereof I speak, and you do not need to worry yourself in the slightest about me being trolled or triggered, as I am well past these things. In fact, to quote Walter White, "I am the one who trolls!" Not that I sell amphetamines, or anything, but you should stifle yourself a bit, AC, you are out of your league.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @10:42AM
QED
For the win!