AccuWeather First to Warn of Hurricane Irma’s ImpactAdvance lead time and precise track forecasts of Hurricane Irma once again

demonstrate AccuWeather’s life-saving Superior Accuracy.™

During the morning hours of Sunday, September 10, 2017,

Hurricane Irma made landfall at Cudjoe Key in the Florida Keys

as a Category 4 storm. Irma made a second U.S. landfall at Marco

Island, Florida, as a Category 3 hurricane early Sunday afternoon.

Prior to striking the U.S., Irma made several landfalls across the

northern Caribbean, causing massive destruction across the

northern Leeward Islands, Turks and Caicos, and Cuba.

A couple of weeks prior, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas

as a Category 4 hurricane, making this the first time in recorded

history that two Category 4 hurricanes made landfall in the U.S.

during the same year.

Irma left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and Florida.

Severe structural damage and power outages were widespread

and, unfortunately, over 50 people lost their lives due to the storm,

most of whom were in the Caribbean. Impacts from the storm in

the form of storm surge flooding and damaging winds were also

felt in Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama.

Nearly two weeks prior to Irma’s landfall in Florida, AccuWeather

expert meteorologists began to talk about the potential for

a hurricane to impact the U.S. during the September 8–12

time frame. Well in advance of Hurricane Irma’s devastation,

AccuWeather was stressing the massive impact the storm would

have on the Caribbean and the U.S. in far more detail when

compared to other weather providers.

When a natural disaster threatens, minutes and hours count, and preparation and risk avoidance is imperative. Turn to AccuWeather, the World’s Weather Authority®

for the latest information on tropical updates.

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Client Testimonials:

“Just a quick note to say thanks for all the live shots

during our hurricane coverage. I can’t remember

all the meteorologists we used but please let them

know how much we appreciate their contributions.

Also thanks to those meteorologists on your staff

who took the time to talk to a nervous Operations

Director (me) about staff planning and travel to our

Maitland, FL facility. It was very helpful.”

“You and your team did an awesome job, as usual.

Our service is on in most of the affected areas,

people were given lots of notice and [I] was told

that it really contributed to people taking it

seriously. I was also contacted by a number of

people in Jamaica, Barbados, and other areas

who told me that ‘you can’t go ten feet without

CalaWeather being on TV’. Apparently, every bar

was playing it right next to the Sports channels.

I think we can all be proud of the job we did.”