Hurricane Irma swells into major Category 3 storm

[brooklynite]

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

Hurricane Irma has strengthened into a major Category 3 hurricane in a matter of hours after forming earlier this week, according to an advisory issued 4 p.m. Thursday (Aug. 31) by the National Hurricane Center. The 2017 hurricane season's 9th named storm, Irma is building steam in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa and heading west.

As of 4 p.m. Thursday, forecasters tracked Irma blowing winds near 115 mph -- up from around 100 mph logged at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. Currently, Irma is heading west-northwest in the Atlantic, but is expected to tilt more south-westward by Sunday.

Sometime next week, both American and European forecast models show Irma growing into "an extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane," according to the hurricane center.

"Irma is expected to remain a powerful hurricane for several days," the hurricane center's 4 p.m. advisory states.





Read more: http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2017/08/hurricane_irma_strengthens_int.html#incart_m-rpt-2

[FakeNoose]

1. Here comes another 500-year storm

It's only 48 hours since the last one.

[Hieronymus]

2. Gives Irma a great chance of gaining strength ..

traveling the entire Atlantic.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The models are all over the place

so the path this far out has Irma going anywhere between the Keys and Maine.

[Submariner]

4. We need a Stage 5 hurricane to target and flatten Mar-A-Lago

That would be fun to watch with a CNN split screen on the resort and Trump's face as he cries in despair

[Dopers_Greed]

5. "This hurricane has been very unfair to me"

"In fact, I think President Obama has gotten his hands on the Chinese's weather-changing technology."

[Thor_MN]

7. A relative posted on FB complaing of people blaming Harvey on Trump...

No one is blaming Harvey on Trump. No one blamed Katrina on Bush.

The sub par responses to the hurricanes, that's what people blamed on sub par pResidents.

[jpak]

6. Emperor Trump will just tweet it away - into the cornfield

yup