Effects of Hurricane Irma lots of rain and winds have been picking up. Irma is expect to come close to the island. Let s bring in kari hall shes tracking where irma is now and when its expected to make landfall in the us. Is lets bring in kari hall as shes tracking irma right now and when we can expect it to make landfall in the u. S. Well, as we get a look at this storm, just wanted to analyze a few things with you as we look at how this storm continues to change as it moves off towards the west. Right now as it interacts with some of these islands, the convection around that hurricane not as symmetrical as it was. That shows that there may be a little bit of weakening that will work its way into the eye of the storm. It may go through an eyewall replacement cycle within the next several hours, which would then cause it to temporarily weaken before it does move back over to some of the waters, very warm water, and then it could strengthen once again. It is moving very closely to the V