#5 storm

Hurricane Irma is now a Category 5 storm, and could make landfall in Florida

A week after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, devastating Texas with torrential flooding , meteorologists turned their attention toward Hurricane Irma.

The storm formed off the coast of western Africa last week and almost immediately began barreling toward the Caribbean Sea. Irma officially became a named storm on August 30, and was classified as a hurricane on August 31.

Since then, it has gained…