Maximum sustained winds are 125 miles an hour. Wilma is a powerful Category Three system. The coast is being hit by torrential rain and pounding waves that threaten flooding in low-lying areas. Wilma's powerful winds began lashing southwest Florida early Monday morning.
The National Hurricane Center says Wilma made landfall at 6:30 AM, Eastern time, at Cape Romano, just south of Marco Island. UPDATE, MON, 5:50 AM: Wilma is roaring ashore near Naples, Florida. Wilma is Florida's eighth hurricane in 15 months. The storm has weakened slightly as it moves across the state at 23 miles an hour toward Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.Īt 7:00 AM, Eastern time, its top winds were clocked at 120 miles-per-hour. Wilma hit Florida with 125-mile-an-hour winds, sending waves crashing onto the shoreline. More than 150 miles away in Miami Lakes, the blue glow of transformers exploding illuminated the pre-dawn sky. The center of Wilma's eye made landfall around 6:30, Eastern, near Cape Romano on an uninhabited island of the same name. UPDATE, MON, 6:45 AM: A Floridian who's riding out Wilma calls the storm "wicked." The Category Three hurricane roared ashore early Monday morning, in the southwestern part of the state. Wilma has also brought huge waves to Havana, Cuba, where neighborhoods up to four blocks inland have as much as three feet of water. Mexicans and stranded tourists are dealing with hunger and frustration. In Cancun, troops and federal police are trying to control looting at stores and shopping center. The storm caused heavy damage over the weekend to resort towns along Mexico's Yucatan Coast.
Large sections of Key West and other areas are flooded, and hundreds of thousands are without power. It came ashore Monday morning south of Naples as a Category Three storm, and as Florida's eighth hurricane in 15 months.Īt least one death in Florida is blamed on the storm. UPDATE, MON, 8:30 AM: Hurricane Wilma has weakened to a Category Two storm, with winds of 110 miles an hour, as it races across Florida. Track Hurricane Wilma's progress right here on !
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