Irma became a category 2 hurricane in the Atlantic

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Thursday, 31 August, 2017 12:18

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Thursday, 31 August, 2017 12:18

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The disruption Irma, which is in the eastern Atlantic off the african coast, became a category 2 hurricane, said on Thursday the american Center of hurricanes (NHC), warning that he should be “extremely dangerous.”

Irma is moving at about 17 km/h in a direction west-north-west and displays winds of 155 km/h, says the NHC, noting a “rapid increase”.

The hurricane is expected to become “major” by raising the bar in category 3 by Thursday evening on a scale Saffir-Simpson scale –which measures the power of hurricanes– which account 5.

At 15: 00 GMT, it was located a thousand kilometres west of Cape Verde, and it should continue on its current trajectory until Friday morning before they veer to the west on Saturday. It is still very far from the land, therefore no monitoring or alert has not been put in place.

The civil protection of Haiti, thousands of miles of Irma, has already referred to that hurricane on his Twitter account Thursday morning, stating that the precise trajectory had yet to be set for the next few days.