Hurricane Irma is an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde hurricane. In terms of maximum sustained wind speed, Irma is the strongest tropical cyclone observed in the Atlantic since Wilma. And the strongest storm in the open Atlantic. Irma was the first hurricane to attack the Leeward Islands since the record, followed by Hurricane Maria in two weeks, the second-largest Caribbean hurricane that caused economic losses after Maria. In the ninth game of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, the named storm, the fourth hurricane, the second major hurricane and the first hurricane of the fifth grade, Irma caused widespread and catastrophic in its long life.
Destruction, especially in the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Keys. It is also the strongest hurricane since the Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the first hurricane that landed in Florida since Wilma in the same year, and the first hurricane that hit the state since Hurricane Charlie in 2004.
