Hurricane Irma Category 5, the strongest ever recorded in the Atlantic, maintains its winds of 295 kilometers per hour today as it approaches the north coast of Puerto Rico in its advance towards the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Bahamas and South Florida, publishes Radio Habana Cuba.  

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the eye of the system will pass near or just north of Puerto Rico this afternoon or night and near or on the north coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday, then head towards Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas, to follow its route towards the north of Cuba and to make landfall on Florida the weekend.

The NHC said in its bulletin at 15.00 GMT today that Irma is 65 miles (110 km) east of St. Thomas and 140 miles (225 km) east of San Juan (Puerto Rico).

It continues to drag top sustained winds of 185 miles per hour (295 km / h), with stronger gusts, and moves west-northwest with a speed of 16 miles per hour (26 km / h).

NHC meteorologists estimate Irma will fluctuate in the strength of its winds, but will remain as a category 4 or 5 the next two days.

Although it is still too early to predict where the hurricane eye will pass, experts said Florida will receive Irma's' impact 'on the weekend,' with hurricane winds that will begin to be felt like Saturday and the worst will arrive on Sunday '.

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