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Hurricane Milton made landfall in southwest Florida on Wednesday as a Category 3 storm, then was downgraded to a Category 1. A drone image shows a flooded street due to Hurricane Milton in Siesta ...
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A drone image shows the damage to the dome of Tropicana Field in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton in St. Petersburg, Fla, on Oct. 10, 2024. Credit - Bryan R. Smith—AFP/Getty Images
Hurricane Floyd was a destructive hurricane that hit North Carolina and New Jersey during the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. The image above was taken of Floyd near its peak intensity, and because the image is so striking, it has often been attributed to other, more recent destructive storms such as Hurricane Jeanne and Hurricane Katrina .
Photos, videos show Hurricane Milton damage in Florida. Nicole Brown Chau. Updated October 10, 2024 at 8:39 PM. ... Wednesday night as a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds.
To be classified as a hurricane, a tropical cyclone must have one-minute-average maximum sustained winds at 10 m (33 ft) above the surface of at least 74 mph (64 kn, 119 km/h; Category 1). [1] The highest classification in the scale, Category 5 , consists of storms with sustained winds of at least 157 mph (137 kn, 252 km/h).
The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane near Steinhatchee, a tiny community in northern Florida of less than 1, ... all causing more than $1 billion in damage. ... TIME’s Top 10 photos ...
The first hurricane to cause at least $1 billion in damage was Betsy in 1965, which caused much of its damage in southeastern Louisiana. Four years later, Camille caused over $1 billion in damage as it ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi at landfall, and Virginia after moving inland. After the 1960s, each decade saw an increase in tropical ...