October 8, 2024 The National Hurricane Center says Milton is one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record. The Category 5 hurricane's winds are 180 mph. Hurricane warnings are now in effect for parts of Florida. Here’s the latest. ...
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2:33 Hurricane categories explained: How strong is each category?The National Weather Service uses a scale that only measures a hurricane's sustained wind speeds using a 1 to 5 rating system. Library Of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images, FILE...
A super typhoon is equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane. Shortly after it made landfall, Hainan saw widespread power outages, local media reported, with about 830,000 households affected. Emergency teams, consisting of about 7,000 people, said power was restored to 260,000 homes by Friday even...
But its not only Milton's record speed and low pressure that have observers worried about the hurricane. It is also how early and quickly it intensified. In just 49 hours, Milton's wind speeds increased from those of a tropical depression (35 mph) to that of a category 5 hurricane (160...
Weather officials said Haiyan had sustained winds of 235 kph (147 mph) with gusts of 275 kph (170 mph) when it made landfall. By those measurements, Haiyan would be comparable to a strong Category 4 hurricane in the U.S., nearly in the top category, a 5. ...
Patriciamade landfall as a Category 4 hurricane with top winds of 150 mphnear Playa Cuixmala in Jalisco state of southwest Mexico on Oct. 23 at 6:15 p.m. CDT. Although the core of Patricia's strongest winds impacted a sparsely populated area north of Manzanillo, it still caused severe da...
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Category 5 strength Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Yolanda, appeared to retain much of its terrifying force as it moved west over the country, with sustained winds of 295 kph, gusts as strong as 360 kph. Haiyan’s wind strength makes it equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane. ...