Hurricane Irma Category Category 5 Hurricane Sshws

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The massive storm could hit south florida as soon as friday and if it maintains its strength will. 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 category 1. Hurricane irma was upgraded to a category 5 hurricane by the national hurricane center this morning as she buzzsaws into the central caribbean sea with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph that.

Irma made landfall in the florida keys with winds of 130 mph 215 km h and a pressure of 931 mbar hpa.

The saffir simpson hurricane wind scale sshws formerly the saffir simpson hurricane scale sshs classifies hurricanes western hemisphere tropical cyclones with sustained winds that exceed 63 knots into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds. Hurricane moves across the atlantic oceanreuters. Two people have been confirmed dead as hurricane irma smashed a string of caribbean islands. A category five hurricane the highest level on the saffir simpson hurricane wind scale sshws tore through the caribbean island nation of.

27 49 inhg making it the strongest. The author is diandra jones an english and dance teacher who lived on the island when irma hit. Hurricane irma has strengthened to category 5 storm with winds reaching 180 miles an hour. The highest classification in the scale category 5 consists of storms with sustained winds of at least 157 mph see the table to the right for all five categories with wind speeds in various units.

Virgin islands on september 6. Published in 2019 this book gives a gripping first person account of the impact of category 5 hurricane irma in 2017 on tortola population 25 000 in the british virgin islands. The scale was developed in 1971 by civil engineer herbert saffir and meteorologist. Hurricane irma now a category 5 storm and set to be extremely dangerous for caribbean and florida.

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Furthermore when irma made landfall on barbuda saint martin virgin gorda and cuba as a category 5 hurricane it became one of only two recorded atlantic storms to make landfall in multiple nations at this strength. Jump to navigation jump to search. Frae wikipedia the free beuk o knawledge. Hurricane irma will bear down on the leeward island today as an extremely dangerous category 5 hurricane packing winds of near 175 mph with higher gusts.

Category 5 major hurricane sshws nws hurricane irma at peak intensity near the u s. The other was hurricane andrew in 1992 which struck both eleuthera and the united states as a category 5 hurricane.