Here’s why Irma is a monster hurricane, in one GIF.

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By Eric HolthausSep 7, 2017, 4:10 pm126 pts
The last Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States was Andrew, which lashed South Florida with wind gusts of up to 177 miles per hour in 1992. It caused immense devastation and forever changed Florida’s approach to hurricanes. Twenty-five years later, we have Hurricane Irma — a storm that…

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