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Naples Municipal Airport has reported a gust of 142mph at 4.34pm, near reports of 135mph gust and sustained winds of 93mph – the most powerful recorded gusts on the mainland.

In Naples, Ed Pilkington is recording what he can of the storm, including the eerie keening of the wind and all the sounds it’s kicking up inside his hotel.

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Storm has made landfall on Marco Island, its second landfall of the day, and is moving northward after being downgraded to a category 3 storm

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Naples Municipal Airport has reported a gust of 142mph at 4.34pm, near reports of 135mph gust and sustained winds of 93mph – the most powerful recorded gusts on the mainland.

In Naples, Ed Pilkington is recording what he can of the storm, including the eerie keening of the wind and all the sounds it’s kicking up inside his hotel. 

Scenes from the storm’s eyewall in Naples, floods in Miami, and Tampa Bay emptied of its waters, pushed out by winds that, when they turn, will bring it rushing back.

The full might of Irma is now right in front of our eyes outside the window in Naples, Florida. It came on very quickly as the eye wall struck.

About 15 minutes ago we were seeing the trees being tossed around by violent winds.

Then about 10 minutes ago the trees started to be obscured by driving rain that was moving fast and almost horizontally across our window in great bands.

Right now it’s got even worse than that. You cannot see anything but whiteness. It’s like a snow blizzard. The rain is so thick it’s like a giant white sheet shooting across at incredible speed.

And this comes before the sea starts to surge and the flooding starts. 

In Naples, people can do little but watch the gigantic eyewall of the storm move over the city.

Irma has slowed to a maximum sustained windspeed of 115mph, its eye a mere 10 miles from Naples. The National Hurricane Center is detecting gusts of up to 155mph in the area. At 4pm it’s up to 97mph. 

More than two million in Florida have lost power, according FloridaPower & Light, the main utility service in the state, as hurricane Irma continues to wipe out power lines and batter infrastructure.

Several cities and counties, including Hollywood and Broward County, have ordered residents to boil water, out of concern that flood waters – often a stew of rain, seawater and sewage – have seeped into the public supply.

As of 3pm, the center of Hurricane Irma is about 20 miles away from Naples, the National Hurricane Center reports, with sustained winds of 120mph. The storm’s eyewall is over Marco Island.

Naples Municipal Airport reports sustained winds of 55mph and gusts up to 82mph. Across the state, Miami is awash in thick, spitting rain driven almost horizontally by the wind, with winds of similar force. Parts of downtown Miami are underwater in storm surges.

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