Hurricane Ian left over 2 million Florida residents without power

Hurricane Ian left more than two million people without electricity in Florida, USA, according to Poweroutage.com, a portal that aggregates information from grid companies in North America.

That is, about 20% of all registered electricity consumers in the state were disconnected from it.

Now the hurricane is moving through Florida at a speed of 169 km / h. Currently, he is assigned the second category on the Saffir-Simpson scale - before that, "Ian" was assigned the fifth category when his speed reached 240 km / h.

Cuba was left without electricity yesterday because of this hurricane. According to forecasters, this is the strongest hurricane since 2008 - the wind reached a speed of 123 meters per second.