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Into delaware and south jersey. Now, lets talk about irma. This storm bombed out over the past 24 hours. Maximum sustained winds 185 miles per hour. This is a strong category five hurricane. If you look at it you can see the eye of the storm clearly well defined wraparound convection thunderstorms and its very close to antigua. Its only about 135 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands continuing to move to the west. To put this in perspective weve only had one storm in recorded history stronger than irma. That was allen back in 1980. Ill talk about the latest path of irma and what it means for the u. S. Coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Monica and rick. Thank you, cecily. With irma bearing down on the united states, preparations are well under way in the miami area tonight. Folks are stocking up onas, water, food and the cash in the event that south florida does take a direct hit. And in texas, the recovery continue ....
This system is continuing to move eastward so we do have a severe thunderstorm watch posted for philadelphia and areas all north and west until 9 oclock. They should be weakening as they press into south jersey and delaware. Strengthening Hurricane Irma it bombed out over the past 24 hours. You can see a very distinct eye and this is one of the strongest storms in the history of the atlantic ocean. Its moving west at about 15 Miles Per Hour. So the northern Leeward Islands are going to get hit very hard. Ill have the latest on this storm and the path coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Jim. All right, cecily, of course were also tracking the path of Hurricane Irma on the 6abc app. We will alert you to any updates as the storm moves. You can also get the lat ....
Lets go over to dave murphy and karen rogers. Good morning. Some folks waking up to thunder right now. Yes, especially down south. Lets go ahead and take a look. We have satellite and radar and you can see the line of cloud cover and also some of those showers out to the west. Want to go ahead and start you on storm tracker6 live double scan and you can see that in the south, there is a cluster of thunderstorm activity pushing into areas around dover and this is pushing towards the north and east so if youre in south jersey in cumberland and salem county you may be picking up some of that, downpours and lots of lightning. Up to the north its spotty precipitation here or there, maybe a little bit of fog mixed in and out in the northern and Western Areas weve got some basic showers, couple of other thunderstorms pushing away to the east of allentown in through northern Hunterdon C ....
Overnight and now weve got some showers and even a couple of thunderstorms and storm tracker6 live double scan right now shows you some of this action. In the northern and western suburbs all it is is some showers and it is pushing off to the north and east. So it looks like allentown could get hit by a little bit of that but mostly its going to be to the north and west of allentown. Big issue farther south, of course, is down around dover, delaware and these showers and thunderstorms now as expected crossing the delaware bay, salem county, Cumberland County picking up some of these lightning strikes and ill just give you the movement here as this is also pushing up toward the north and east and it looks like wilmington delaware might get caught with some of this and philadelphia after that and that is what were looking at on radar this morning. As we take a look at temperatures were starting out okay. 70 degrees in philadelphi ....
International space station and finally this is irmas eye as seen from a nasa satellite three different views but all say the same thing, this is a potentially catastrophic storm and its headed towards the united states. It is tuesday night the big story on action news Hurricane Irma preparing for landfall as a category five storm. People in puerto rico and florida are seriously battening down the hatches with irma producing the most powerful winds ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. The storm could reach florida by the weekend shells are already emptying out in grocery and home stores. Authorities are readying evacuation orders and Florida Governor rick scott has declared a state of emergency for all 67 counties before irma gets to florida she will pumpel small caribbean islands like anguila and here is the most frightening thing we heard the governor of puerto rico is ca ....