Three Category 5 Hurricanes In One Atlantic Season A First In 20 Years

These storms are the most intense that the Earth can produce. Melissa, Humberto and Erin were added to the list of rare ...
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Hurricane Irma Strengthens Into Category 5, and Florida Braces for Possible Landfall

Hurricane Irma, fresh on the heels of Hurricane Harvey, strengthened early Tuesday into a Category 5 storm with maximum winds of 175 miles per hour, as Florida started to prepare for its potential ...

Is Melissa a Category 6 hurricane? What to know about the Saffir-Simpson scale

According to the NHC, the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, developed in 1971 by civil engineer Herbert Saffir and ...
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Hurricane Melissa Tied Record Strongest Atlantic Basin Landfall In Nearly 100 Years

Hurricane Melissa is already a history-making storm, landing on all-time lists for strongest Atlantic Basin hurricanes and ...

Where does Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa rank among the strongest storms ever?

The strongest Atlantic storm on record was 2005’s Hurricane Wilma, with an all-time-low pressure of 882 mb. It hit that peak at sea while it was a Category 5. But it made landfall in Florida as a ...