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Hurricane Irma makes landfall at Cudjoe Key in the lower Florida Keys as a Category 4 storm with 130 mph sustained winds. It was the first major hurricane to hit Florida since Wilma in 2005.
It was also the most intense hurricane to strike the continental United States since Katrina in 2005, the first major hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and the first Category 4 hurricane to strike the state since Charley in 2004.
Hurricane Irma struck Florida Sept. 10, 2017, causing severe damage in many parts of the state. Federal funding for recovery has totaled more than $5.58 billion in assistance to households and communities, low-interest disaster loans and flood insurance payments.
Irma struck Florida twice on September 10 – the first as a Category 4 at Cudjoe Key and the second on Marco Island as a Category 3. The hurricane weakened significantly over Florida, and was reduced to a tropical storm, before exiting the state into Georgia on September 11.
USA TODAY. The National Hurricane Center began forecasting Irma's progress as a low-pressure system on Aug. 30, as it became a Category 5 monster that stampeded across the Caribbean and then as...
On Sunday morning, September 10 th, Irma strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane as it accelerated toward the Florida Keys. The eye made landfall in Cudjoe Key as a 130 mph Category 4 at 9:10am. The center of Irma then made landfall in Marco Island at 3:35pm that afternoon as a Category 3 with 115 mph winds.
The major hurricane made landfall near Marco Island in southwest Florida around 3 pm EDT on September 10th, as a category-3 storm with 115 MPH. Naples, Florida reported a peak wind gust of 142 MPH. Irma moved quickly northward, just inland from the west coast of Florida on September 10th and 11th.
Irma became a tropical storm on August 30 and then underwent a period of rapid intensification that allowed it to reach major hurricane status, Category 3 or higher, on August 31. Irma then...
The Naples Daily News covered Hurricane Irma before, during and after the major storm rolled through Collier County on Sept. 10. Reporters and photographers embedded in evacuation shelters,...
What happened when Hurricane Irma made landfall in South Florida 6 years ago? The next day, the storm slid just north of Puerto Rico.