Visualizing Irma's Immense Size Compared To Andrew, The Most Destructive Hurricane To Ever Hit Florida

photo credit to @JoelNihlean / twitter. Hurricane Irma (today) vs. Hurrican Andrew (1992). showing the size of the two storms together.

@JoelNihlean quoted that, "Irma is a damn leviathan."

As Adam Rogers notes at WIRED, Irma is an "almost impossible" storm:

Hurricane Irma has become the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record, category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale—over 800 miles wide, roughly the size of Texas, sustained winds of over 185 miles per hour for more than 24 hours, gusts over 200 mph... “Irma is anomalous,” says Jim Kossin, an atmospheric scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information. “This is a record-breaker. Unprecedented. Catastrophic.”