(ORLANDO SENTINEL) -- Hurricane Irma is working its way through the Caribbean today and could reach Florida by Friday, forecasters say.
Meteorologists expect the Category 3 hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, to remain a “dangerous major hurricane” through the week and to arrive in South Florida by Friday morning.
Modeling by the National Hurricane Center shows the outer bands of the slow-moving, potentially dangerous storm lashing Key West and Miami by 8 a.m.
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