Hurricane Irma could be the next disaster in the US

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While most are following the effects of Hurricane Harvey in Texas in the US, a new threat is emerging. The powerful storm Irma is forming in the Atlantic and poses a serious threat to the Caribbean and, possibly, to the southeast coast of the United States. According to CNN, curtains will reach a peak next week.

On Wednesday morning, meteorologists assigned Irma the status of a tropical storm, on Thursday afternoon they retrained degrees 3 to hurricane with wind speed 185 km per hour. Such a rapid strengthening of the storm is called "rapid intensification," according to the National Hurricane Center. This means that Irma has increased the wind speed by 56 km per hour in just 24 hours.

“Irma was a spectacular hurricane,” say meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Irma is expected to continue to strengthen, as it will move west for the next five days. According to the forecast of the National Hurricane Center, Irma may become a hurricane of the 4 category with a wind speed of 209 km per hour by the next evening of Tuesday.

Photo: National Hurricane Center

Irma is a classic hurricane that forms in the eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean, not far from the Cape Verde Islands (now it is Cape Verde Island) and runs across the Atlantic. Cape Verde storms are often one of the largest and most intense hurricanes.

Recall, in Texas and Louisiana hurricane Harvey rages. The death toll due to a hurricane in Texas has increased to 30 people. As a result, the elements suffered about 6,8 million people. According to a new analysis by the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and the Engineering Center, it became clear that flood in texas no equal in the last thousand years.

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