Hurricane Irma: Most powerful Atlantic storm makes first landfall

Source: The Associated Press, September 6, 2017 

Rain and high winds hit the French island territory of Saint Martin on Wednesday as Hurricane Irma churned through the Caribbean.

Hurricane Irma roared into the Caribbean with record-setting force early Wednesday, shaking people in their homes on the islands of Antigua and Barbuda on a path toward Puerto Rico and possibly Florida by the weekend.

Irma, which was the strongest Atlantic hurricane ever recorded north of the Caribbean and east of the Gulf of Mexico, passed almost directly over the island of Barbuda, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

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