By Paul Homewood
Very quick update on Irma.
As forecast yesterday, wind shear is rapidly weakening the storm, which made landfall a couple of hours ago at Marco Island, at 115 mph, making it Cat 3.
It has now degraded to Cat 2 at 110 mph, and is expected to decline to Cat 1 by the time it reaches the Tampa area.
Various forecasts in the last couple of days have suggested a monster Cat 5 storm hitting Florida, but fortunately these have proved false.
Irma remains a dangerous storm however, and storm surge on the Keys and south west Florida is still life threatening.
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September 10, 2017 at 04:36PM
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