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The National Hurricane Center stated that when Hurricane Milton lands in Florida this week, it is expected to be a category 4 or 5 storm. It was upgraded to a category 4 on Monday morning.
Experts have also noted that Tampa has not been hit directly by a hurricane in more than a century — not since the deadly 1921 hurricane that saw storm surges of 11 feet.
The potential “once in a lifetime” storm rapidly intensified from a Category 1 to a Category 5 hurricane on Monday with sustained winds surpassing 180mph, before slowing to Category 4 on Tuesday.
Category 4 is the second-highest hurricane classification category on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale, and storms that are of this intensity maintain maximum sustained winds of 113–136 knots (130–156 mph, 209–251 km/h). Based on the Atlantic hurricane database, 144 hurricanes have attained Category 4 hurricane status since 1851, the ...
As of the 11 p.m. weather advisory, the National Hurricane Center now predicts that Hurricane Milton will only weaken to a Category 4 — not a Category 3 — when it makes landfall in the Tampa ...
A Category 5 Atlantic hurricane is a tropical cyclone that reaches Category 5 intensity on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, within the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. They are among the strongest tropical cyclones that can form on Earth, having 1-minute sustained wind speeds of at least 137 knots (254 km/h ; 158 mph ; 70 m ...
Yesterday, there were a lot of changes: first, Milton changed initially into a Category 2 hurricane, a Category 3 hurricane, a Category 4 hurricane and a Category 5 hurricane but it ended up as a ...
After the series of powerful storm systems of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, as well as after Hurricane Patricia, a few newspaper columnists and scientists brought up the suggestion of introducing Category 6. They have suggested pegging Category 6 to storms with winds greater than 174 or 180 mph (78 or 80 m/s; 151 or 156 kn; 280 or 290 km/h).