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A hurricane watch, meaning hurricane conditions are possible within 24 hours, was issued for: Dominica, Anguilla, St. Maarten, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy. A tropical-storm watch is in effect ...
Hurricane Kristy weakened to a Category 1 storm on Saturday and is expected to downgrade into a post-tropical cyclone and disorganize in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center ...
Hurricane Nigel became the sixth hurricane to form in the Atlantic Ocean this season Hurricane Nigel expected to ‘rapidly intensify’ and become major storm by Tuesday: Latest tracker Skip to ...
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).
By 1 p.m. Sunday, with the storm 290 miles west-northwest of Progreso, it intensified into Hurricane Milton, a Category 1 storm with a minimum of 74 mph sustained winds. Show comments Advertisement
Favourable atmospheric and oceanic conditions fostered strengthening, though this trend levelled off after Kirk became a hurricane on 1 October. A period of renewed rapid intensification brought Kirk to peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson scale, with winds of 230 km/h
The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale, assigns a numerical classification of hurricanes into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds. The scale spans from Category 1 (winds of at least 74 miles per hour (119 km/h)) to Category 5 (exceeding 156 miles per hour (251 km/h)).
Debby made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane before moving offshore and ... is defined by having winds of 39 mph or higher — with eight to 13 forecast to ...