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Hurricane Debby drenched parts of Florida, forming in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 4, 2024, and making landfall a day later in the Big Bend region. Hurricane Debby photos, video of rain, heavy surf ...
Hurricane Debby was a slow-moving and erratic Category 1 hurricane that caused widespread flooding across the Southeastern United States in early August 2024. The fourth named storm and second hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, Debby developed from a tropical wave that was first noted by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on July 26.
This measuring system was formerly known as the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale, or SSHS. To be classified as a hurricane, a tropical cyclone must have one-minute-average maximum sustained winds at 10 m 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 ...
For the large-scale test, the MythBusters made use of Medusa, the world's largest portable hurricane simulator, located at University of Florida's Hurricane Research Facility, and beforehand built a house that was small enough to accommodate Medusa's cowling but otherwise built to several state building codes. Unlike in the small-scale test ...
As of Friday at 3 a.m. ET, about 241,812 homes and businesses, 16% of customers, were still without power, according to the LUMA Energy website. Flood warnings were still in effect across Puerto ...
The National Hurricane Center has issued its first advisory on Potential Tropical Cyclone Four. Tropical storm watches and warnings have been issued for portions of Florida ahead of a possible ...
A total of 94 hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean Basin, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, have reached Category 4 status as their peak intensity. (Note that Category 4 storms that intensified later to Category 5 status are not included in this analysis.) Most Category 4 hurricanes occur during September, with 51 storms occurring in ...
Article first published: Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, 5 a.m. ET. Article last updated: Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, 8 a.m. ET. The National Hurricane Center's 8 am Friday advisory reported that Category 2 ...