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Update 11 a.m.: The National Hurricane Center says “a potentially catastrophic” Irma has strengthened to 180 mph winds, up slightly from the 8 a.m. advisory.
The increase in wind speeds makes Irma the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico in hurricane center records.
Behind it, is newly-formed Tropical Storm Jose.
Irma is 225 miles east of Antigua and moving west at 14 mph.
The government of the Bahamas has issued a hurricane watch for the Turks and Caicols Islands and the southeastern Bahamas, including the Acklins, Crooked Island, Long Cay, the Inaguas and the Ragged Islands.
While Irma is a huge storm, roughly the size of Texas, hurricane-force winds extend up to 60 miles from the center with tropical storm-force winds out up to 160 miles.
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