Florida-Bound Hurricane Irma Back to Category 5
Hurricane Irma strengthened back into a Category 5 storm Friday night as it made landfall on the Camaguey Archipelago of Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane #Irma Advisory 40: Irma Making Landfall On the Camaguey Archipelago of Cuba as A Category 5 Hurricane. https://t.co/VqHn0uj6EM
— NHC Atlantic Ops (@NHC_Atlantic) September 9, 2017
Irma’s status as a Category 4 storm was relatively short-lived, having been downgraded from a Category 5 storm early Friday morning.
As of 11 p.m. ET, Irma was about 300 miles from Miami and moving about 13 mph toward the west, the National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Irma remains forecast to hit the Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm.
#Irma making landfall on the north coast of #Cuba as a 160 mph CAT 5 and ~300 miles SSE of #Miami moving west at 13 mph pic.twitter.com/2bvV6a9i3p
— Rob Marciano (@RobMarciano) September 9, 2017
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