Irma, reduced to a tropical storm after lashing the Caribbean as a major hurricane, is now “slowly weaken[ing]” over southern Georgia, according to the latest update from the U.S. National Hurricane Center as of 5 p.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 11.
The system has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph while moving 17 mph north-northwest over Georgia. Currently, the storm is about 150 miles south of Atlanta, hovering over Albany, Georgia, the agency stated.
