![]() ![]() Forecasters expect Ian to become a major hurricane before it lashes the US, with winds reaching 111 mph or greater. Ian’s winds intensified from 85 mph Monday afternoon to 100 mph at 5 p.m. The hurricane center’s forecast for Ian “has shown an unprecedented rate of strengthening from a tropical storm to powerful hurricane,” CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said. The eye of the storm is located around 150 miles southeast of the western tip of Cuba and Ian is moving north-northwest near 13 mph, the center said.įlorida could start feeling Ian’s wrath as early as Tuesday, with hurricane conditions potentially hitting the state Wednesday. ET update from the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. ![]() Ian is now a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, according to a 5 p.m. Hurricane Ian keeps getting stronger as it barrels toward Florida, prompting urgent evacuations and threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane.
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