Hurricane Irma
was the most intense Atlantic hurricane observed in over a decade. It was also the most intense hurricane to strike the United States since Katrina in 2005, and the first major hurricane to hit the state of Florida ​since Wilma in 2005.
The ninth named storm,
fourth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, Irma has caused widespread and catastrophic damage on its track across the Atlantic, most of which was caused ​ in the northeastern Caribbean. The storm caused catastrophic damage in Barbuda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, Anguilla and the Virgin Islands as a Category 5 hurricane. As of September 10, the hurricane has caused at least 46 deaths (one in Anguilla, one in Barbados, three in Barbuda, 10 in Cuba, 11 in the French West Indies, three in Puerto Rico, four on the Dutch side of Sint Maarten, nine in the contiguous United States, and four in the U.S. Virgin Islands). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Irma
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