Caribbean/US: The cyclone made landfall with wind speeds of nearly 295 km per hour as it moved closer to the Caribbean island, it is expected to hit the coast of Florida on Saturday, with possibly greater force than Hurricane Harvey, A weather plane used for research flew directly into the eye of Hurricane Irma just hours before the Category Five storm made the landfall in the island of Barbuda in Caribbean, US. The video was shot on the board National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration flight ‘NOAA42’, which has been flying in rough weather to collect data about the “potentially terrible” storm.
The visuals show that of multiple screens monitoring data but one look at the instability outside gives an near into the intensity of the cyclone, Emergency preparations are already underway in anticipation of the powerful storm, taking lessons from the destruction left behind by Hurricane Harvey, Emergency was declared in Florida, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands before Irma made landfall, Authorities in Puerto Rico urged the 3.4 million residents of the U.S territory to request shelter in one of 460 hurricane shelters in advance of the storm and later ordered police and National Guard troops to begin migrations of flood-prone areas in the north and east of the island.