Hurricane Irma Impacting Florida 9/10/17

Hurricane Irma is on the west coast of Florida, taking a track to the northern Florida Peninsula. While the eye of the storm is on the west coast, millions of people will potentially have to deal with the extreme winds of the eyewall; the feeder bands that carry high wind, torrential rain, and possible tornadoes; the storm surge, first on the east coast, then the west coast; and the flooding rains.

How fast Irma loses wind speed will depend on how it interacts with the land that it traverses, but it will not be as intense of a wind storm by the time it reaches north Florida. Hurricane warnings cover most of Florida. There are also tornado watches, flood watches, storm surge watches and then warnings for sudden changes to all of that. A tropical Storm Warning is up for the central portion of the Panhandle, northward into eastern Alabama and central Georgia.

The odds of Irma heading directly to the WKRG News 5 area remain low.

Hurricane Jose is in the central Atlantic as no direct threat to any land. It will linger there maybe for a week, and perhaps loop around to eventually threaten some islands or land.

There’s a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic that may become a tropical depression next week. It is the peak of hurricane season so all of this is not too unusual.

WKRG-TV Chief Meteorologist Alan Sealls
Mobile, Alabama