This is mark demaris. Hurricane irma remained a category 4 storm moving north at 9 Miles Per Hour. We expect that to accelerate during the day. The storm made landfall over the cudjoe key area around 9 10 as a category 4 storm. The keys are actually still getting the effects of the storm on the back side. They are not completely out of the woods yet. As the storm moves up the coast we are getting observer reports of hurricane gusts in miamidade. The center of the storm looks like it will be moving you have the southwest coast of florida over the later today. And we have a hurricane warning potentially for the entire state of florida except for the western panhandle because of the large size of this system. We have the hurricane is expected to remain a major hurricane when it reaches the southwest coast. It will weaken as it crosses the tampa area. But this will be a major wind and surge event as well as i rainfall the next couple days. The surge event. Southwest florida is especially v
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