Hurricane Irma: What’s Happened and What’s Next<br />It passed over St. Martin and Anguilla as it headed west, leaving a path of destruction, as seen in this vivid footage:<br />The Atlantic’s strongest storm has left destruction across the Caribbean.<br />Hurricane Irma made landfall this week in the Caribbean as one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded.<br />On Wednesday, Irma struck land for the first time, hitting the island of Barbuda with winds of up to 185 miles per hour.<br />The storm was expected to reach South Florida this weekend, according to our hurricane path tracker.<br />Hurricane Irma’s trajectory is by far the most important question facing forecasters right now, but its intensity is a concern as well.<br />Here is a guide to ’s coverage of the Category 5 storm as it sweeps toward Florida.<br />For dispatches from journalists across the region, see our live briefing with up to the minute developments.
