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  • The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities...
    38 KB (3,591 words) - 03:35, 15 May 2024
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    all issue tropical storm/hurricane watches and warnings. Tropical storm watches are issued when gale and storm force winds of between 34 and 63 knots...
    43 KB (3,654 words) - 05:51, 16 March 2024
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    instead of the latter two if the winds relate to a tropical cyclone), and force 12 a hurricane-force wind warning (or hurricane warning if related to a tropical...
    23 KB (1,676 words) - 23:32, 12 May 2024
  • The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially begins on June 1, and ends...
    17 KB (1,206 words) - 01:46, 29 May 2024
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    Category 5 hurricane on record to impact the Florida Panhandle, the fourth-strongest landfalling hurricane in the contiguous United States, in terms of wind speed...
    117 KB (11,752 words) - 05:49, 23 May 2024
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    Category 4 hurricane and bringing tropical-storm-force winds to Bermuda. After briefly attaining Category 4 strength on August 30, Hurricane Idalia made...
    162 KB (14,178 words) - 20:25, 29 May 2024
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    becoming a Category 5 hurricane by 12:00 UTC on the following day, with winds of 175 mph (282 km/h). The extremely powerful hurricane continued to intensify...
    223 KB (20,106 words) - 05:37, 28 May 2024
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    increasing organization. Strong wind shear with 30–35 mph (45–55 km/h) winds generated by the upper-level outflow from Hurricane Fiona inhibited development...
    169 KB (14,608 words) - 13:06, 2 May 2024
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    Tropical cyclone (redirect from Hurricane)
    cyclones form each year around the world, over half of which develop hurricane-force winds of 65 kn (120 km/h; 75 mph) or more. Tropical cyclones carry heat...
    210 KB (20,658 words) - 04:27, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes
    A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic...
    53 KB (3,264 words) - 13:03, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hurricane Otis
    peak winds of 165 mph (270 km/h) and weakened only slightly before making landfall as a powerful Category 5 hurricane. Once inland, the hurricane quickly...
    100 KB (9,032 words) - 16:08, 13 April 2024
  • (word game), a classic party game Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, a common categorization of hurricane intensities Categories of New Testament manuscripts...
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  • Thumbnail for 2004 Atlantic hurricane season
    four notable storms: Hurricane Charley, that made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), causing...
    114 KB (10,869 words) - 20:26, 22 May 2024
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    Florida, where the storm made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, with 1-minute sustained wind speeds as high as 165 mph (266 km/h) and a gust as high...
    137 KB (13,404 words) - 04:57, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1928 Okeechobee hurricane
    later, the storm strengthened and became a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. Still moving westward, the system reached Category...
    70 KB (7,943 words) - 04:06, 25 April 2024
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    tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds. The 2019 cyclone is regarded...
    169 KB (14,431 words) - 07:00, 3 May 2024
  • intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale on July 17, 2005. Though the official end of the Atlantic hurricane season occurs on November 30, the...
    74 KB (4,496 words) - 06:14, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2017 Atlantic hurricane season
    Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane. In terms of sustained winds, Irma, at the time, became the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic...
    183 KB (16,295 words) - 20:32, 22 May 2024
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    one-minute maximum sustained winds of at least 39 mph (34 knots, 17 m/s, 63 km/h), while hurricanes have one-minute maximum sustained winds exceeding 74 mph (64 knots...
    60 KB (6,543 words) - 19:27, 28 May 2024
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    Hurricane Patricia was the most powerful tropical cyclone on record worldwide in terms of maximum sustained winds and the second-most intense on record...
    75 KB (6,475 words) - 00:41, 28 May 2024
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