FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - Emergency management officials across South Florida hastened disaster preparations on Tuesday in anticipation of Hurricane Irma's expected weekend arrival on the U.S. mainland with possibly greater force than Hurricane Harvey unleashed on Texas.
Irma, a Category 5 storm - the highest hurricane ranking used by U.S. forecasters - neared the Caribbean's northern Leeward Islands, east of Puerto Rico, late on Tuesday with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour (300 km/h).
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