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All of those hit the U.S.?Cedarswamp » 08 Sep 2017 1:39 pm » wrote:Two cat 5's in 2005?
Because that's what my link said, in the U.S..
Misty » 07 Sep 2017 4:08 pm » wrote: The U.S. has never been hit, since we started collecting records in 1851, by two Category 4 or stronger hurricanes in the same season,” said Jeff Masters, a meteorologist and co-founder of Weather Underground.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/fir ... tting-u-s/
Meteorological monsters: Only 3 Category-5 hurricanes have ever hit the U.S.
It's been 25 years since a Category 5 hurricane struck the U.S., and Irma could potentially become just the fourth storm of that strength to barrel into the states.
Hurricane Irma is a monster storm in the Atlantic with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph.
Only one Atlantic hurricane on record, Allen in 1980, contained stronger winds, at 190 mph.
The only Category 5 hurricanes to hit the U.S. are Andrew in 1992, Camille in 1969 and an unnamed storm in 1935.