Satellite image of Hurricane Irma over Hispaniola on the th September Irma made landfall on the Leeward Islands as a category storm with sustained winds of kilometres per hour in the early morning of the th September First hit was Barbuda where over of buildings were destroyed Significant damage and loss of life were reported on the other Leeward Islands as Irma continued northwards Data obtained by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS on NASAs Terra satelliteNasaScience Photo Library
