In pictures: Hurricane Wilma
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Thousands in Mexico, Cuba and Florida are being told to get out of harm's way, as Wilma moves across the Caribbean Sea. -
Workers seal shops on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, which the hurricane is expected to brush in the next 24 hours. -
The storm's heavy rains have prompted airlifts in Jamaica. -
The storm was expected to dump up to 38cm (15 inches) on the island by Thursday. -
Wilma has also been lashing the Central American state of Honduras with heavy rains. -
Tourists are curtailing their trips in high-risk areas along the coast near Cancun, in Mexico. -
Heading to Florida now
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Reuters - Fri Oct 21,10:47 AM ET
An uprooted tree lies on the street under heavy rain and strong winds as Hurricane Wilma approaches Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. Roaring waves pounded Mexican beach resorts on Thursday and thousands of tourists were evacuated to escape the wrath of Hurricane Wilma, which gathered strength in the Caribbean on its way to Florida. Cuba evacuated 220,000 people and residents of southern Florida stocked up on drinking water and gas to prepare for Wilma, which spun off the coasts of Mexico and Belize packing winds of about 150 mph (240 kph). REUTERS/Henry Romero -
AP - Fri Oct 21,10:47 AM ET
Power lines are knocked down by winds from the approaching Hurricane Wilma on Friday Oct. 21, 2005 in Cancun, Mexico. (AP Photo/Israel Leal) -
AP - Fri Oct 21,10:58 AM ET
This infrared satellite image provided by NOAA and taken at 5:15 a.m. EDT Friday Oct. 21, 2005 shows Hurricane Wilma as it approaches the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. Wilma, a Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph, was expected to make an agonizingly slow journey to the tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and sideswipe Cuba _ 130 miles east of Cancun _ then swing east toward hurricane-weary Florida. Cuba evacuated nearly 370,000 people in the face of the storm, which has already killed at least 13 people in Haiti and Jamaica. (AP Photo/NOAA) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,10:58 AM ET
Fallen tree branches are seen due to heavy rain and strong winds as Hurricane Wilma approaches Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. REUTERS/Henry Romero -
Canadian Press - Fri Oct 21,10:59 AM ET
Tourists hang out by the beach as a red warning flag flies due to the approach of hurricane Wilma in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,10:58 AM ET
Tourists arrive at a storm shelter as hurricane Wilma approaches in Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico October 20, 2005. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21, 9:59 AM ET
Tourists rest at a storm shelter in Cancun on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico as hurricane Wilma approaches October 20, 2005. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,10:41 AM ET
A tourist walks on a beach at Playa del Carmen as Hurricane Wilma approaches in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo October 20, 2005. (Henry Romero/Reuters) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:04 AM ET
Palm trees buckle under heavy rain and strong winds as Hurricane Wilma approaches Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. Roaring waves pounded Mexican beach resorts on Thursday and thousands of tourists were evacuated to escape the wrath of Hurricane Wilma, which gathered strength in the Caribbean on its way to Florida. Cuba evacuated 220,000 people and residents of southern Florida stocked up on drinking water and gas to prepare for Wilma, which spun off the coasts of Mexico and Belize packing winds of about 150 mph (240 kph). REUTERS/Henry Romero -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:14 AM ET
A flooded street due to heavy rain and strong winds as Hurricane Wilma approaches is seen at Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. Roaring waves pounded Mexican beach resorts on Thursday and thousands of tourists were evacuated to escape the wrath of Hurricane Wilma, which gathered strength in the Caribbean on its way to Florida. Cuba evacuated 220,000 people and residents of southern Florida stocked up on drinking water and gas to prepare for Wilma, which spun off the coasts of Mexico and Belize packing winds of about 150 mph (240 kph). REUTERS/Henry Romero -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:16 AM ET
Flooded street under heavy rain and strong winds is seen as Hurricane Wilma approaches Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. Roaring waves pounded Mexican beach resorts on Thursday and thousands of tourists were evacuated to escape the wrath of Hurricane Wilma, which gathered strength in the Caribbean on its way to Florida. Cuba evacuated 220,000 people and residents of southern Florida stocked up on drinking water and gas to prepare for Wilma, which spun off the coasts of Mexico and Belize packing winds of about 150 mph (240 kph). REUTERS/Henry Romero -
AP - Fri Oct 21,11:24 AM ET
A man walks on the beach as Hurricane Wilma approaches in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on Friday Oct. 21, 2005.. The fearsome core of Wilma slammed into the island of Cozumel, starting a long, grinding march across Mexico's resort-studded coastline, where thousands of stranded tourists hunkered down in shelters and hotel ballrooms. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:24 AM ET
A Cuban man rides his cycle in the rain as Hurricane Wilma approaches in Havana, Cuba October 21, 2005. Hurricane Wilma, an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm pounding Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts with ferocious winds and rains, was projected to strike Florida on Monday, according to all of the major weather models. The northwestern eyewall of Wilma was over the island of Cozumel in Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory Friday, noting the center of the storm could make landfall on northeastern Yucatan tonight. The eyewall, the eye of the storm surrounded by a vertical wall of clouds, is a hurricane's most devastating region. After leaving the Yucatan, the hurricane will churn northeast across the Gulf of Mexico toward the south-central Gulf Coast of Florida, according to the weather models. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:26 AM ET
Mark Byrd looks at hurricane shutters in anticipation of Hurricane Wilma in West Palm Beach, Florida October 21, 2005. People are beginning to prepare along the East Coast of Florida bracing for Hurricane Wilma's impact, in the hope its 240 km (150 mile) per hour winds will not pick up strength before it makes landfall. REUTERS/Marc Serota -
AP - Fri Oct 21,11:35 AM ET
Antonio Hernandez, 66, prepares his breakfast in the evacuation center located in the school 'Antonio Guiteras', Friday Oct. 21, 2005 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.Cuba evacuated nearly 370,000 people in the face of Hurricane Wilma, which has already killed at least 13 people in Haiti and Jamaica. (AP Photo/Jorge Rey) -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:43 AM ET
Palm trees buckle under heavy rain and strong winds as Hurricane Wilma approaches the resort town of Cancun in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar -
Reuters - Fri Oct 21,11:47 AM ET
Flooded streets are seen under heavy rain and strong winds as Hurricane Wilma approaches Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo October 21, 2005. Roaring waves pounded Mexican beach resorts on Thursday and thousands of tourists were evacuated to escape the wrath of Hurricane Wilma, which gathered strength in the Caribbean on its way to Florida. Cuba evacuated 220,000 people and residents of southern Florida stocked up on drinking water and gas to prepare for Wilma, which spun off the coasts of Mexico and Belize packing winds of about 150 mph (240 kph). REUTERS/Henry Romero