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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 ...
Odile had the lowest atmospheric pressure of a Category 4 hurricane in the Pacific basin, east of 180°W, at 918 mbar (hPa; 27.11 inHg). Category 4, the second-highest classification on the Saffir–Simpson scale, [nb 1] is used for tropical cyclones that have winds of 130–156 mph (209–251 km/h; 113–136 kn). The division of the eastern ...
These Atlantic hurricanes reached Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale at their peak. Subcategories This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.
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.
Hurricane Milton is currently a Category 4 storm and follows Hurricane Helene and long history of other storms that have caused life-altering effects for the people that are in its path.
Helene is more then 400 miles across and is one of the largest hurricanes ever to hit the coast of Gulf of Mexico
So an intensity of 115 kn is rated Category 4, but the conversion to miles per hour (132.3 mph) would round down to 130 mph, making it appear to be a Category 3 storm. Likewise, an intensity of 135 kn (~155 mph, and thus Category 4) is 250.02 km/h, which, according to the definition used before the change would be Category 5.
Hurricane Milton, which formed over the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico, strengthened to a Category 4 storm Monday morning as it barrels toward the west coast of the Florida peninsula ahead of its ...