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Article snippet: Hurricane Irma made landfall this week in the Caribbean as one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Here is a guide to The New York Times’s coverage of the Category 4 hurricane as it sweeps toward Florida. For dispatches from journalists across the region, see our live briefing with up to the minute developments. For an overview of the damage, see this story. On Wednesday, Irma struck land for the first time, hitting the island of Barbuda with winds of up to 185 miles per hour as a Category 5 hurricane. Since then it has left a path of destruction as it passed through the Caribbean, some of it captured in this vivid footage: In another video, residents from the two nations on St. Martin island, the French St. Martin and the Dutch St. Maarten, described Irma’s destruction. The storm was expected to reach South Florida this weekend, according to our hurricane path tracker. Read here how people are bracing for the worst. Hurricane Irma’s trajectory is by far the most important question facing forecasters right now, but its intensity is a concern as well. The Upshot explained how experts are gathering data on the storm’s strength. With good forecasting, government officials can prepare. We are covering the way Florida is getting ready for evacuations, power losses and recovery efforts. The state has a long history of hurricanes, as highlighted in this article about Hurricane Andrew, which struck in 1992. (One of our reporters wrote a gripping first-person ... Link to the full article to read more